I just got the grab bag of grab bags! I was in a local computer store, sneaking a peek at their recycle pile and found this!
It's full of fun stuff. I think I might make a video to see if anyone is interested in any of it. The unmarked drawers are full of DIP chips of all sorts there must be hundreds of them. Some of the original Radio Shack packaging looks really old. It will be an adventure.
I used the 8049 in a few projects back in the day -- it's an 8031 with built-in UV erasable PROM. That series is actually very prop-like for its day, with a surprisingly powerful counter/timer system (using interrupts though), and the 804x series almost totally self-contained so you could tossin a crystal or RC resonator and have a working computer. Intel meant that series for industrial control systems and it was available in milspec and IIRC radiation hardened versions. Was used in a lot of early automotive computers. It had a built in UART but only one, and I once wrote an interrupt driven bit-banging second serial port interface very similar in principle to FullDuplexSerial for it. But they were very slow, requiring a lot of clock cycles (like 20+) per instruction and at 12 MHz ran code noticeably slower than a Z80 at 2 MHz. With the chip running at 12 MHz my bit-banging serial driver maxed at 1200 baud.
xanadu, I have two parts cabinets of that exact style. From the same era. Probably not as interesting though, as I had no money and mostly stuffed them with parts harvested from discarded TV sets and such.
Hey Doc,
Should I see if there is a Z80 SIO floating around here somewhere so you have a complete collection? Not seen in years, but ya never know.....
Hey Doc,
Should I see if there is a Z80 SIO floating around here somewhere so you have a complete collection? Not seen in years, but ya never know.....
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It's full of fun stuff. I think I might make a video to see if anyone is interested in any of it. The unmarked drawers are full of DIP chips of all sorts there must be hundreds of them. Some of the original Radio Shack packaging looks really old. It will be an adventure.
Should I see if there is a Z80 SIO floating around here somewhere so you have a complete collection? Not seen in years, but ya never know.....