[sdiy] SID 6581/2 source

[jared]

On 7/7/05, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:
> 
> >Besides taking the SID chip out of old c64s, are there any actual 
> suppliers?
> 
> The market for "spare" SIDs has been pretty much harvested by the
> Electron ESI SIDstation. What you get today are mostly leftovers from
> cannibalized C64s and C128s.
> 
> >I can't find a supplier for the 8521 version, or whatever, so is that
> >apparently out of production too?
> 
> 8580. Careful though, 6581 and 8580 use different analog voltages
> (12V vs. 9V).
> 
> And, of course it is out of production since ~1991 when the last
> batch of C64 were produced.
> 
> >is there a commodore mailing list? :/
> 
> Weird question... You should ask "just *how* many are there!?". There
> are mailing lists, usenet groups, and (of course) inevitable web
> forums, as well as even more web sites dedicated to programming,
> repairing, and preservation.
> 
> I'd recommend the cbm-hackers (hosted on cling.gu.se <http://cling.gu.se>) 
> mailing list for
> hardware-specific questions or comp.sys.cbm (usenet) for questions of
> any kind. The latter sadly has a high noise-to-signal ratio these days.
> 
> Rainer



Thanks, that was helpful!


-- 
jared foster

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