Texas DWI breath test information - Intoxilyzer 5000

All Law Enforcement Agencies in Texas that conduct Breath Testing use a machine called the Intoxilyzer 5000. (Pictured above)
· There are currently only two models of the Intoxilyzer 5000 in use in Texas, the Model 68 and the newer Model 68 EN. These two models are “upgrades” to the prior model 64, and 66 machines.
· The Intoxilyzer 5000 is a computer based on old technology. The brains of this machine is a Z-80 microprocessor which was introduced 30 years ago in 1975. The Z-80 microprocessor was the basis for some of the very first home computers, and video games, in the early 1980's. As a matter of fact, the Z-80 chip is the same chip that ran the old Atari video games... => http://www.austin-texas-dwi.com/parts/intoxilyzer.html