18 Jun
2008
18 Jun
'08
8:33 a.m.
On Wednesday 18 June 2008 09:24, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 17, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
They're all over the place. I have at least one tube of *brand
new* NMOS Z80 (not-A) chips here...cost me all of three bucks on eBay
in '06 or so. Need any?
Those I probably have some of, though I'll have to do some digging to be
sure. The non-A version only ran at what, 2.5 MHz?
I was actually referring to those 8085-family parts up there, but I don't
have a whole lot of enthusiasm for that part these days, unless I want to go
for low chip count for some specific application.
I'm not remembering where the heck I got it, but somewhere I had a brown
paper bag (!) with a couple or three slabs of black foam in it that were
loaded on both sides with CPU and other Z80-family parts. One of these days
I need to find that and see exactly what I've got.
I suspect that where I'm probably going to come up short is in finding a
sufficient quantity of 40-pin wire-wrap sockets to build this with. :-)
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IIRC,
when there was only the NMOS Z80/Z80A parts, this was one of
the reasons for the popularity of the Intel 8085. You could put
together a functional system for a dedicated application with some of
the made-for-8085 peripherals (e.g. 8155, 8355, 8755), with a very
low chip count compared to what's needed for an equivalent Z80
implementation.
Are those parts even around any more though? Easy enough to find?
I haven't looked in a while...