4 Mar
2014
4 Mar
'14
4:44 p.m.
(Apologies if duplicate - sent original with wrong source email address.)
Why not use an FRAM (e.g. Cypress FM28V020) and completely dispense with
the batteries? About $15 ea at Mouser. Looks like an SRAM and is 32K x 8.
-Gary
On 03/04/2014 12:38 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Mar 4, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Alan Hightower <alan at
alanlee.org> wrote:
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-Gary
I don't think you are going to find enough
PDP8 owners for a kickstarter.
Sounds like an interesting project. However if you include 1 SMT chip, you could do it
with FRAM or MRAM - which are in a way a modern day equivalent of core memory. A nice
link to the past.
Most people I know who restore old machines, including me, have an irrational disdain for
batteries.
Irrational? Given the damage I've seen batteries do when they leak,
I'd
hardly call it irrational.
- Dave