Stolen thread: on topic we go: 6100 SBC project.

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 23:50:03 +0000 Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote: Okay. I will offer the following for $5, to the first five interested people, to get this project rolling: 1. Two 6100 processor chips 2. A CDROM with the 61xx family datasheets, and the manuals, tech data, etc. of the Intercept, and Intercept, Jr. (the Junior is a system that used the 6100 chip) 3. A single 2Kx8 SRAM chip. I'm limiting this to the first five people (which is negotiable if more people than that are really interested) who want to be involved building a real 'blinking lights/switches' 6100-based PDP-8 computer project, because I don't want this to turn into a 'collectable silicon chip to sit in the anti-static mat forever' giveaway. I've sold a few of these 6100 chips for much higher prices than this to chip collectors not interested in a 'project' like this, that's not what this offer is intended as. I do probably have some of the other parts and misc. to kick off this project. The 6100 has been termed 'one of the easiest processors ever to experiment with' because it has some of the most liberal clocking requirements of any microprocessor, ever. It's all Static CMOS, so you can clock it with a pushbutton at one-cycle-per-second if you like. Please reply in this thread, and contact me in email for private info (mailing address, etc.) so there's a 'visibly public' presence for a project like this. I have access to some decent always-on web space (at freeshell.org) so project details and a web page can be put up as things develop. -Scott