18 Sep
2006
18 Sep
'06
4:24 p.m.
On 9/18/2006 at 11:43 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
FWIW, some HP HPIL peripheals used a related chip
(3870). IIRC, the 82161
tape drive, 82162 printer, 82165 GPIO and 82166 converter all used said
microcontroller. The 82164 RS232 and 82169 HPIB used 8049s, the 9114 disk
used a 6809 (!).
If you add the Z8, then the number of embedded designs using this chip
architecture is huge indeed.
But my reference was to "Personal Computers" using the F8 as the CPU. The
"Channel F" and VideoBrain are the only ones that come to mind.
Whilst reading about the VideoBrain, I discovered that Dash Chang was part
of the development team. I met Dash a few years later when he was running
Chang Labs and promoting his software for x80 systems. My memory is
failing--was that software MicroPlan? It's been too long...
Cheers,
Chuck