Newest article: Controller specifications
The original SXD main controller unit, first introduced in 1988, was a 32-bit system powered by the then-new Motorola 68020 CPU clocked at 16 MHz. The firmware, SXD System 6, was housed in a 4 MB ROM. The system had relatively little onboard RAM (512 KB), which was sufficient for its relatively narrow range of responsibilities:
battery management
subsystem management (at the time these were called "modules")
charging
light bus devices (EHF/FIR)
fan control
personality management
menu display
satellite uplink (AURAXICOM LiveNet)
Data could be loaded from an internal tape drive (based on the Exabyte 8505, sold as an upgrade) or an external magneto-optical diskette cartridge located inside the battery compartment. EXB-8505 tape drives can hold up to 60 TB of high-density slow storage, and typical MOD cartridges of the era had a capacity of 652 MB.
SXD version 6
The original SXD main controller unit, first introduced in 1988, was a 32-bit system powered by the then-new Motorola 68020 CPU clocked at 16 MHz. The firmware, SXD System 6, was housed in a 4 MB ROM. The system had relatively little onboard RAM (512 KB), which was sufficient for its relatively narrow range of responsibilities:
Data could be loaded from an internal tape drive (based on the Exabyte 8505, sold as an upgrade) or an external magneto-optical diskette cartridge located inside the battery compartment. EXB-8505 tape drives can hold up to 60 TB of high-density slow storage, and typical MOD cartridges of the era had a capacity of 652 MB.
general lore
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- History of the SXD conversion program
- Pygmalia
- Robot Psychology for Roleplayers
- The Robot With No Skin
- Treasure Hunts
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