At 10:14 PM 2/19/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:54, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > 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.
>
>Well old process control equipment, especially telecoms hardware, tends
>to be a good source of Z80 family chips, and typically there's no merit
>in preserving the boards as they are.
>
>Better than wrecking a self-contained complete computer, even if it is a
>common one!
>
>cheers
>
>Jules
Z80s (and others) along with their support ICs are readily available from
places like:
http://www.jameco.com
--tom
Received on Thu Feb 19 2004 - 16:30:54 GMT