Intel Intellec 8 computer?????

Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote: Hi Dave If you are going for a complete Intel chip collection, this is a rare bird indeed. This was an early attempt by Intel to get into the telco market. It is a DSP chip that had an EPROM inside. It was somewhat limited in how it worked. The program flow was just one big loop. Multiplying was a pain because it was a bit at a time. If it was a constant, there were often tricks you could play. It was to have a MIPs speed of 10MHz but I don't think they ever got beyond 8MHz before it got cancelled. Still, if you knew how to make it work, it was an interesting part. It could be programmed to make a spectrum analyser that would display on an oscilloscope that had x-y control. They had an Ap note showing how to do it. I have about 6 chips of which, only one is functional. That is why I'm still on the lookout for another. I'm afraid to mess with the last working one I might ever see. Dwight