[sdiy] SID 6581/2 source

[mmanard at columbus.rr.com]

http://www.centsible.com 
has NOS 6581's for $25

- Michael nil-x

----- Original Message -----
From: jared <jaredfoster at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2005 1:28 pm
Subject: Re: [sdiy] SID 6581/2 source

> 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
> 
> "...How can you love a square goldfish?"
> D. Manus Pinkwater, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
>