Altair parts substitutions

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed May 24 21:08:18 2000

"Richard Erlacher" <richard_at_idcomm.com> wrote:
> Eric, I hope I'm not crazy . . . My recollection of the Intel 8748 board,
> for which series I recall Intel cooked up the 87xx part numbers, had
> silkscreened on it "It's a 5-Volt world" though they didn't use 5-volt-to
> whatever they wanted to use for RS232 converters. The memories didn't see
> any power supply other than +5.

True of things like the 8755, which was introduced at about the same time.
But the 8708 was from a few years earlier, and was definitely marketed as
an EPROM for use with the 8080. I don't have any pre-1980 Data Catalogs
handy, but I'm 99.99% certain that the 8708 was just a different designation
for the 2708, just as the 8102 is a 2102, and the 8205 is a 3205.
Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 21:08:18 BST