Identicon

8080 Processor Board Reverse Engineering

After hacking on the Identicon 8080 board and getting it running some test programs, I wanted to reverse engineer the bus connector and decode logic so that I could expand the board into a more usable system.

Identicon 8080 Processor Board

Identicon produced a wide range of barcode scanning equipment starting in the 1960s. Their products eventually included microprocessor control, one of them must have used this Intel 8080 based processor board. Sometime in 2012, a friend acquired several of these boards in a scrap lot, and we hacked on them.