Richard Erlacher wrote:
It's been a long time, but since I just recently handled the old 8748 doc that
has the reference I thought I saw, it'll be cleared up soon.
I just remember that all the 87xx parts, 8741, 8755, 8748/49, etc, were all
5-volt parts. further, I'm not at all sure that the 8080 had below-ground
signal levels, since they were intended to be attached to bipolar parts, e.g.
8212, etc, which would have been intolerant of that. What I've got in my lap
is the 8080A data, which may, actually be different, but IIRC, the 8080 needed
the negative bias supply so it could swing to ground and the +12 so it could
swing to a reasonable high level. My only contact with the 8080 was on boards
made by Intel, and, while I poked around with a 'scope and other gear from
time to time, I don't recall ever finding an address, data, or control signal
that wasn't TTL compatible.
But check the specs TTL compatible often is for 1
TTL S load for output
lines
max.
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