8 Nov
2007
8 Nov
'07
3:32 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:21 -0600, Jim Battle wrote:
woodelf wrote:
I overheard the owner describing it to someone else. He said it was an
1801 CPU not an 1802 and is the same as the first CPU chip to fly into
space on an amateur radio "satellite."
Atsushi
Philip Pemberton wrote:
The page describing the exhibits for vcf 10 explains it:
RCA 1800 MICROTUTOR
Larry Pezzolo (Palo Alto, CA, United States)
The MICROTUTOR preceded the COSMAC "ELF" computer which was very similar
in form and function. This one is a very early version that uses the
COSMAC 1801 microprocessor, the two chip predecessor to the 1802. It appears to be an RCA COSMAC Microtutor, which
by the looks of
things is broadly similar to the Popular Electronics "COSMAC Elf"...
I
don't see the CPU. Is that on a plug in board?