I am sure everyone here who fixes old HP stuff knows of the equivalents
lists that were published in Bench Briefs (which are now on the web).
Today I was looking at aboard from an HP tape drive. I was pretty sure
the 40 pin chip with a Motorola logo and an HP 1820-xxxx number was some
flavour of 6809, but I couldn't rememebr what speed of whether it was an
-E version, so I grabbed the latest equivalent list. I wasn't listed...
But I was sure I recognised the number, so I looked in my older list. It
was there. A 68B09. I also found a device I was looking at the other day,
and which I suspected was a microcontroller (and isn't in the latest
list) is listed in the older one as a 68488 ()which is what I deduced it
to be after spending several hours downloading data sheets from the web
and trying to match up pinouts). Argh!
So a warning : Devices are sometimes removed from this equivalents list.
You need to check all of them to see if it's listed anywhere.
-tony
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