30 Jul
2002
30 Jul
'02
3:54 a.m.
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Synertek 6502's are very common in Apple //e's. I was just working on one
yesterday that had a SY6502.
I would also call it a "find" but it's nothing special. A tube of common
6502's does not make me moist.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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1. Does anyone
have any cool Synertek lore they'd like to
share with the group? All I know about them is they made
the SYM-1 and were a 6530 second-source. I guess it's safe
to conclude they were also a 6502 second-source. :)
I think I've got some
e-mails from a guy who used to work for them. From
memory, Synertek were a Honeywell subsidiary who signed a license with MOS
Technology to second-source the 6502. MOS used the part numbers "MCS6502"
and "MPS6502", Synertek used "SY6502". 2. Is this a
"Find" in any sense? (I paid all of 30 cents
each for them.) My motivation is to have enough replacement
parts to keep all my 6502-based hardware humming for years
to come. Though in this case I have several lifetimes' worth.
:)
I would call it a find. How many have you got? Would you be interested in
selling me a few?