MORE 1802s!!!

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Tue Apr 20 08:31:06 2004

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:27:40AM -0400, Joe R. wrote:
> I made a major score of 1802s recently. A couple of weeks ago I went a
> scrap place and found some old traffic controllers. I opened one and found
> that they all used socketed 1802 CPUs. I pulled over 50 of them :-)

What specific model of 1802 is in there? What manufacturer? (CDP1802BCEs
are somewhat common for processors of modern manufacture; I have one
old 1802D that someone paid a lot of money for at one point (ISTR you
can push an 1802D to +10VDC and overclock it, compared to the cheaper
models).

Do you know about the 1802 Yahoo! Group?

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cosmacelf/

As soon as I can find some black paint, I'll be taking pictures of the
Popular-Electronics Elf I just put together a few days ago.

> FWIW I also found a couple of Eagle controllers and I checked them, they used
> 68008 CPUs.

68008s are useful to Sinclair owners. It's not tough to build a homebrew
project with one. We had a prototype async<->bisync adapter based on them
(since our codebase was for the 68000) that never left the lab. If we'd
designed it later, I'd probably have recommended a 68330-type embedded
communications controller.

Good score.

-ethan

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