Processor Card
SA20001 and SA20002 were both needed
Herald A (1st Generation) c1980
At first the memory was on a separate card to the processor
At its heart a micro processor
" parts of the EAROM have checksums 33 bytes at the beginning and 250 bytes near the end" (see NEWSFLASH 041)
Details of how EAROM is used to store speed dials can be found in NEWSFLASH 064)
The first 1 k of RAM 4000h-43FFh, is on the processor card
Another 2k can be found on the Extension Memory card
H3s Software reports the following RAM errors
Then as more memory fitted on one IC, both memory and processor could be found on the same card...
SA20550 Combined processor and Memory c1983
Herald (100B) B5 (2nd Generation)
24k (3 x8) Eprom 2764
6k (3x 2k) EEprom intel 2816
8k (4x2k) Static Ram + 1 F cap
SA20551 - No huge cap now - But you still need a Tones card
Herald B8 ( 3rd Genration)
In october 1984 it was announced that Herald A and B5 were due to be phased out by the end of 1984 and would be replaced by S5102 (Herald C)
See Herald Information Note 94
128k (8x27128) Eprom software
2k (eeprom) BT ARC TEST
24 k (3xhm6264lp-15) static ram
10k(5xDQ528B13-250) eeprom
Herald B8 is more or less a Pentara via upgrade
The same EProms were used, they just had to be put in different socket names
SA20552 Combined processor and Memory and Tones
Pentara (4th Generation)
No need for Tones card any more
128 k (8x27128) Eprom Software
2k (eeprom) BT ARC TEST
24 k (3xD2186A) static ram
10k (5xDQ528B13-250 2k) eeprom
1A1/20579 Combined processor and Memory and Tones
Pentara Plus (5th Generation)
256k (4x 64k 27512) MAIN S/w
8k (SEEQ 52B33) bt arc test
32K STATIC RAM (4x 8k TOSHIBA TC5565APL-12)
8k eeprom (1 x SEEQ DQ52B33)