On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Eric Smith wrote:
ben franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
It seems a lot of chips
never sell to the hobbyist/homebrewer and this was one of them.
Not really. At least one hobbyist/homebrewer I know did in fact
buy a PACE and build a system. Also Godbout advertised PACE-based
stuff, though I don't know how many they sold.
I'll be really impressed (but not completely surprised) if a hobbyist
somewhere built a system using National's earlier IMP-16 chipset.
I have some sort of IMP-16 development system as well I believe. Either
that or at least the processor and some data books.
I have a processor board that came out of some medical test equipment that
a hobbyist hacked into a general purpose computer. I can't remember if it
was based on the PACE or the IMP-16, but it was certainly one of them.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org
* Old computing resources for business and academia at
www.VintageTech.com *