Intel i2920 IC was Re: Intel Intellec 8 computer????? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Dec 1999

I also recently came across one of these Intel SDK-2920 single-boards, but
it's missing the 2920.  If any 2920-equipped list member is interested in
giving this board a better home, maybe we can arrange a swap.  

Arlen Michaels

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  -----Original Message-----
 From:	Richard W. Schauer [SMTP:rws@enteract.com]
 Sent:	Monday, December 06, 1999 11:15 PM

 On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Dwight Elvey 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  
 I got a strange board from a previous employer (who made teleconferencing
 equipment) labeled Intel SDK-2920.  I fooled around with it a little bit,
 not really knowing what it was.  It has an 8085 for the CPU on the
 "programmer" side, 1 kB of SRAM (2 2114's), a 24-character
 14-segment-per-character LED display, and of course the EPROM programmer.
 On the "execute" side there are 4 analog signal channels, only one
 populated, (each containing 2 2912 IC's and some passives) and then one
 socket for the 2920 that runs the whole mess.  And yes, I have a 2920 for
 it which I think is good, because it reports "EPROM BLANK" when I try to
 dump the program out of it.  The die inside the 2920 is mounted cockeyed-
 and it's huge, some parts of it are outside the limits of the quartz
 window.

 Just letting you knwo that more of the weird stuff exists out there,

 Richard
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