Scientific Micro Systems boards?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat Mar 22 07:53:01 2003

At 03:01 PM 3/21/03 -0500, RK wrote:
>Joe sez...
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>> Hi,
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>> I keep finding a lot of boards made by SMS and I'm wondering if they're worth picking up. A lot of them seem to be out of DEC systems and/or 8" floppy drive controllers that are used with DEC stuff. I usually leave them behind but I picked up one yesterday for parts. this one is a Q-bus card and has an AM2901ADC bit slice CPU, an Intel 8085, an intel 8155 and an Intel 8253. It says that it's model # FWD 0106, Assy # 000420-0001, Fab # 0004222 Rev C.
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>> Any thoughts on this?
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>Prolly at least worthwhile for the 8085 and other spare parts...
>I'm looking for 6802's (and 6821's) and having a hard time...
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>How much are they costing you?

   It varies but usually a couple of bucks. Generally I "shop" at the scrap places so if I don't buy them they end up being scrapped for the metal but there's little if any gold in the SMS stuff so it's cheap.

>I'm looking for 6802's (and 6821's) and having a hard time...

  I find them occasionally, I'll start picking up some. Do you mind unsoldering them or are you just looking for socketed parts? I think most of the 68xx stuff that I've seen is soldered in. I generally don't bother with soldered in parts but you may not have any choice. Drop me a line in a month or so I'll let you know what I find.

    Joe
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