[sdiy] transistion from 7489/74189 to more modern ram??

[Rainer Buchty]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

> If you're going to that much trouble, you should replace the rest of 
> the external logic too and do the whole thing as a digital project, 
> since that's what it is. And FPGAs are only one of your solutions at 
> that point.

Sure. But sometimes you just want to repair a machine instead of 
re-creating major parts of it from scratch.

Of course, today you can easily fit any 1980s synthesizer in an FPGA or 
just emulate it in software using a strong enough processor.

Rainer