OT? What 8bit Microprocessors still available new?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 19 15:54:49 2004

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, John Honniball wrote:

> Not many. You may find that only the high-volume distributors have
> any of the 6502, Z80 or 6809 generation -- and you'd have to buy
> in *huge* numbers. But having said that, many CPUs are simply not
> made any more. So, you'd have to go to a specialist in obsolete
> semiconductors.

Or just sacrifice an old Apple //e (common as dirt) or C64 (common as
lint) and use the chips inside.

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