[sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!

Grant Richter grichter at asapnet.net
Sat Feb 26 19:11:22 CET 2005


The part number is IM6100. Less than 10 mW at 3.3 MHz. I have the datasheet.

Was it PDP 8 = 12 bit and PDP 11 = 16 bit?

About a year ago I was offered a working VAX 780 with all periferals, free
for the hauling. I can't afford the 15 kW to run it!

> From: "Jay Schwichtenberg" <jays at aracnet.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:59:36 -0800
> To: "John L Marshall" <j.l.marshall at comcast.net>,
> <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!
> 
> John & All,
> 
> Just a lot of nostalgia for me!
> 1) First computer I programmed was a PDP-8
> 2) Worked my way though college doing among other things maintaining a PDP-8
> as a comm-mux to a CDC-3300.
> 3) First job I had out of college was in field service working for DEC.
> 
> Jay S.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John L Marshall [mailto:j.l.marshall at comcast.net]
>> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 6:14 PM
>> To: Jay Schwichtenberg; synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!
>> 
>> 
>> They were made by Intesil. Why would you want one?
>> 
>> Take care,
>> John
>> 
>> Pacific Northwest Synth Meeting September 25, 2004
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jay Schwichtenberg" <jays at aracnet.com>
>> To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:18 PM
>> Subject: RE: [sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!
>> 
>> 
>>> Speaking of such things has me wondering.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any of those PDP-8s on a chip they want to sell for
>>> cheap?
>>> 
>>> Think they were made by Intersil.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Jay S.
>>> 
>> 
> 




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