EPSON ActionPC/ActionTower 7000 series (including ActionTower 8400)
hard disk
access light
RESET
SPEED light
POWER light
(HDD)
drive bays
button
Computer Specifications
CPU and Memory
32-bit CPU
Green PC
energy saver
586 or upgradable 486-class processor
Energy Star compliant, low-power
standby, doze, and suspend modes for the
CPU, hard disk drive, and video signals
sent by the computer to the monitor; select
time-out periods in SETUP; in a standard
configuration of one hard disk drive and
one diskette drive, system consumes less
than 30 Watts in standby mode
I
POWER
diskette drive
button
System speed
option’
slots
AC outlet
voltage
serial 1
printer
mouse
(parallel
switch
device)
VGA
RESE
button
drive bays
VGA monitor
printer (parallel
serial 2
serial 1
mouse
keyboard
AC inlet
device)
voltage selector switch
AC outlet
Memory
ROM
Video RAM
Shadow RAM
Cache
Math
coprocessor
Clock/ calendar
Controllers
PCI Chipset
Fast and slow processor speeds available;
fast is the speed of the processor and slow
is 8 MHz; from the MS-DOS prompt,
speed selectable by pressing
Ctrl Alt -
(slow) or Ctrl Alt + (fast).
8MB RAM standard using SIMMs;
expandable to 128MB using 1,2,4,8,16,
and 32MB SIMMs; SIMMs must be
tin-plated, 72-pin, 32-bit, fast-page mode
type with access speed of 70ns or faster
128KB Phoenix* system BIOS, video BIOS,
and SETUP code located in a flash
memory device on system board
1MB DRAM on main system board;
expandable to 2MB using two 512KB,
40-pin, SOJ flat pack video DRAM chips
Supports shadowing of system and video
BIOS ROM into RAM; shadowing
selectable in SETUP program
8 or 16KB of internal cache in the
processor; supports 128KB, 256KB, 512KB,
or 1MB of external cache with 32K x 8,64K
x 8,
or 128K x 8,15ns or 20ns SRAM DIP
chips and a 32K x 8 or 64K x 8 tag chip
Math coprocessor built into the processor
on all DX and Intel Pentium OverDrive
processors
Real-time clock, calendar, and CMOS
RAM socketed on main system board with
integrated lithium battery
Provides PCI caching, memory and
control for the PCI bus, and the
two-channel PCI IDE interface; integrated
PCI bridge translates CPU bus cycles to
PCI bus cycles and CPU-to-PCI memory
write cycles to PCI burst cycles
10/30/95
ActionPC/ActionTower 7000 series
(including ActionTower 8400) - 1
