TDC1007 / 1007 / TRW / Rare TRW Processor ?

From: William Maddox <wmaddox_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Tue Apr 20 07:05:06 2004

Oops! I misremembered this.
It's in Curtis Roads and John Strawn (eds.) _Foundations of Computer Music_,
MIT Press, 1987.

--Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lawson" <jpl15_at_panix.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: TDC1007 / 1007 / TRW / Rare TRW Processor ?


>
>
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, William Maddox wrote:
>
> > In the 70's, TRW made a fast (for the day)
> > fully-combinational bipolar multiplier that was
> > packaged in an oversized DIP with a giant TRW logo.
> > Chamberlain's "Musical Applications of
> > Microprocessors"
> > has a picture of one.
>
> I have the Hayden hardback edition, 9th printing (1988) and it has
> nothing like this in it - in fact no pictures at all, only line drawings.
> The three microprocessors mentioned are the 8080, LSI-11, and 6502 - and
> these are called out as:
>
> The 8080 for synthesiser control
> The LSI-11 for direct synthesis
> The 6502 for 'logic replacement'
>
> No mention of anything from TRW at all, for that matter....
>
>
> Cheers
>
> John
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