21 Nov
2009
21 Nov
'09
3:44 p.m.
Many Atari periperals used the 6507:
Atari 810 Disk drive
Atari 815 dual disk drive
Atari 1050
Atari 820 printer
Most of the peripherals had to have some form of CPU in them as they
needed to intelligently communicate over the SIO (Serial I/O) bus of the
Atari 8bit computers. The SIO was a primitive form of what is now the
USB interface, interestingly enough - the designer of the SIO Bus went
on to work for Microsoft and holds one of the USB patents - Joe Decuir.
Curt
Geoffrey Reed wrote:
The 6507 is also used in the atari 1050 drive.
On 11/21/09 12:24 PM, "Josh Dersch" <derschjo at mail.msu.edu> wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
The 6507 was used in the Atari VCS (2600). Basically a 6502 limited to
an 8K address space, and in a smaller (28-pin?) package.
- Josh
On Fri,
20 Nov 2009, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> The Osborne book lists 9 variants:
> 65x2 x=0|1
> 65x3
> 65x4
> 65x5
> 6506
>
>
I'p pretty suee I've seen a 6507, at least in a databook.
And the 6509
was a Commodore-special with a built-in MMU sicruit used in the PET II
(P500 etc).