[sdiy] SID 6581/2 source

[jared]

On 7/7/05, Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:
> 
> >Ebay!
> >I got 4 C64's for 20$
> 
> *Working*? Then the prices must have dropped extraordinarily over the
> last years... (Ok, depending on which statistics you believe, there are
> up to 20 million C64 out there.)
> 
> Anyway, the C64 is also a great resource for DIY, in case you got a
> defective one (mostly related to a dead PLA or one of the RAMs having
> died). Apart from the SID you get
> 
> - videochip with up to 320x200 resolution (must be bus-master in a 6502
> system; for other bus timings you need an arbitration logic);
> unfortunately 15kHz timing, so no good with current monitors
> 
> - 2 I/O chips with serial line, timer, real-time clock, and 8-bit port.
> Careful with this guy, it likes to die from static. Always buffer it.
> 
> - CPU with separate 6-bit port (useful for memory banking)
> 
> Rainer
> 

Yeah, if i end up with ten million commodore boxes i'll have to do comething 
cool with them.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of them!

from ebay: "This is a Commodore 64 Original Computer Keyboard" *just* the 
keyboard? :)
-- 
jared foster

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