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IBM's technical reference for the IBM 5150 contains a lot of diagrams.
Following are some motherboard related diagrams that I have created.


RAM bank layout

Reset flow

Clock generation

NMI generation

Data bus - Simplified

Address bus - Simplified

Speaker circuitry - Simplified

Cassette circuitry - Simplified

Dynamic RAM refresh

RAM parity generation and comparison

Keyboard interface circuitry

Generation of CS for U33 ROM

Some 8253 related circuitry

Transceiver between RAM banks and data bus

64KB-256KB motherboard - RAS and CAS Generation

16KB-64KB motherboard - Address bus to memory address bus
64KB-256KB motherboard - Address bus to memory address bus

Connection point for optional RUN LED