Bigboard

The Bigboard was a Z80 based single-board computer designed by Jim Ferguson. It provided interfaces for:

A keyboard
A CRT with 24 lines by 80 characters
Two 8" IBM 3740 compatible floppy disk drives.
Two RS-232 serial ports.
A parallel Centronics standard printer port

Running the CP/M operating system, the design was a success in the amateur computer scene. It was also sold to Xerox, which used it as a basis for their Xerox 820 desktop computer. The Kaypro II portable computer's circuit board was so similar that some considered it an unlicensed copy.

BigBoard is also a fictional computer program used by Hiro Protagonist to keep track of avatars visiting the Black Sun, a night club in the book Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

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