Mystery device

[Christian Hofmann]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:14:34 -0000
"Tony Allgood" <oakley at techrepairs.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> I have just received my latest order from Maplin, and as most Maplin
> customers know, the fun one has discovering which parts they have
> forgotten or put in their place. Well I ordered ten M3 bolts worth about
> 40pence, and got a 40 pin DIL IC. Easy mistake to make of course!!!
> However, I am puzzled by the device. I can't find any reference to it in
> their's, or any other catalogue. It has the folowing markings:
> 
> NEC
> D8279C-2
> 9543X8026
> 
> NEC is obviously the manuf, and the lower line is probably the date
> code, but the part number eludes me. Any ideas?

Hi Tony,
it's one of the 82xx micro processor peripherals, used with Intel 80xx
type processors. I'm not quite sure what the 8279 is, but I think it's
something keyboard-and-display-controllerish. I could dig out those old
data books...

bye
Christian