OT? What 8bit Microprocessors still available new? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Feb 2004

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 From: "Tom Uban"
&lt;uban(a)ubanproductions.com&gt;
At 10:14 PM 2/19/2004 +0000, you wrote:

 On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:54, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
  On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, John Honniball wrote:

  Not many.  You may find that only the high-volume
distributors have
 any of the 6502, Z80 or 6809 generation -- and you'd have to buy
 in *huge* numbers.  But having said that, many CPUs are simply not
 made any more.  So, you'd have to go to a specialist in obsolete
 semiconductors. 
 Or just sacrifice an old Apple //e (common as dirt) or C64 (common as
 lint) and use the chips inside. 
Well old process control equipment, especially telecoms hardware, tends
to be a good source of Z80 family chips, and typically there's no merit
in preserving the boards as they are.

Better than wrecking a self-contained complete computer, even if it is a
common one!

cheers

Jules 
Z80s (and others) along with their support ICs are readily available from
places like: http://www.jameco.com

--tom

 Hi
 Still, all this stuff is from NOS ( New-Old-Stock ) as well as
bits and pieces from various manufacture stock rooms.
 The most common 8 bit still in regular manufacture today
would most likely be the 8051 stuff from Philips. It is a
ugly processor to use as a general purpose processor but
quite nice for things like microwave oven controls. Large
memory access ( 64K ) is a pain.
Dwight