9 Mar
2016
9 Mar
'16
7:42 p.m.
On Mar 9, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
On 03/09/2016 09:28 AM, william degnan wrote:
Not quite industrial, but an interesting early microcontroller application I remember is
from around 1977, a music synthesizer keyboard (possibly the first one that was sensitive
to how hard you hit the keys) using an RCA 1802 microcontroller. It acted as a peripheral
to an 8080 based "host" -- a PLATO terminal with a waveform synthesizer
attached, along with that keyboard.
paul
Not a lot is said about early use of
microprocessors in industrial
microcomputers. Everything you read about is so home computing
oriented, but I believe actual sales would have been greater in the
industrial space
Do you count that 1-bit MC14500 dingus as a microprocessor? :)