Old tandy 1000 keyboard 8 pin din pinout? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Nov 2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Smith &lt;eric(a)brouhaha.com&gt;

...
 You're both right.  Originally there was only one
major version of each
of the 80186 and 80188, with only minor variants for packaging (and
maybe speed grades?). 

The first release was in two speeds.  later plastic packages and
different lead options.  Also the 80C18x flavors.

...
 But in more recent years, Intel has added a plethora of
variants
identified by a two letter suffix, where there are non-trivial funtional
differences.  I think this trend in Intel part numbering started
some years ago with the 8051FA.  They stopped assigning a different 

With standard cell libraries for the last 10 or so years that
doesn't surprize me.  I stopped collecting intel data books after '89.

Allison