[sdiy] AY-3-891x (was: Can we declare ...)

Tom Arnold xyzzy at sysabend.org
Sat Sep 26 01:52:01 CEST 2009


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:13:01PM -0700, Eric Brombaugh wrote:
> Ah - the AY-3-891x chips were fun in their day. Back in 1980 or so I had 
> one hooked up to an OSI Superboard (6502, 4K SRAM, 8K Basic) and had an 
> interesting seashore ambience running - foghorns, bells, seagulls and 
> surf. Good times.
> 
> You can still pick them up cheap from BG Micro:
> 
> http://www.bgmicro.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=12930

I've got about 50 of them.  To make it more clear, this chip was sitting
around and I wanted to play with interfacing stuff to my Arduino based board
so I grabbed it.  The chip itself is only a stepping stone on the path to
something else.  :-)

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