OT? What 8bit Microprocessors still available new?

In message &lt;60584864-6333-11D8-8EA6-000393C5A0B6(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; Ron Hudson &lt;ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net&gt; wrote: I'd probably use Veroboard and a "wiring pen". I bodged one using an expired Berol "Handwriting" pen (the red things), a chunk of thick copper wire from one of the cores in an offcut of mains wiring cable (the stuff that's designed to go inside walls) and a small reel of "Roadrunner" green 38swg enamelled copper wire. The tip is the standard Berol tip, drilled out with a 0.8mm tungsten carbide drill bit. Much fun. I think I got the idea from one of the pages on <http://www.elm-chan.org/>; plenty of good stuff on there, even if most of it is in Japanese. Microcontrollers. See <http://www.microchip.com/>. I use them a lot - they make nice little protocol converters, LED flashers, basically anything that doesn't need to do a great deal of high speed numbercrunching. Yes, the banks/pages/locations architecture is a bit of a pig, but it's not (that) bad once you get used to it. Now, if anyone REALLY wants to flame me, I used a GAL in my "pre-prototype" 6502 computer (really just an LED chaser thing that could do basic math). A GAL as in "generic array logic", a reprogrammable PLD. Well, it saved laying out half a dozen 74LS chips on the breadboard 8^) Later. -- Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB, philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice, http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI ... ASCII and ye shall receive.