OT? What 8bit Microprocessors still available new?

From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu Feb 19 17:04:51 2004

On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 01:54 PM, 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.

Please! only sacrifice non working machines, Dinosaurs may have been as
common as dirt once, but you don't see many of them now. I understand
that
at least for C64 the main failure point is the SID chip...

p.s. anyone have a common as blue lint C64SX I could have (the portable
C64)?
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