6502 CPU schematics - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Mar 2008

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Subject: Re: 6502 CPU schematics
   From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
   Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:49:25 -0800
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"Roy J. Tellason" wrote:

 There was one other company,  though,  and I still can't recall the name,
 that tried unsuccessfully to market some system that would let you plug in
 different CPU boards to run different software.  I'm vaguely thinking of toy
 company names,  but somehow that doesn't quite seem right. 
Thinker Toys? 
Digital Group.

Cromemco

Compupro (8085/8088, Z80, 68000, and x86 later versions).

There were more than a few that were not exclusively one cpu.

If anything S100 was the most diverse for CPUs other than 
8080/8085/z80/8088/86/68000!  

Allison

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 (.. 30 years later I finally clue in the name was a
play on 'tinker toys'.)

> Time frame
> would've been a little later than a bunch of this other stuff,  maybe early
> 1980s or so? 