Tektronix 4051 RAMPACK - new design

Bob Rosenbloom bobalan at sbcglobal.net
Mon Nov 16 09:56:30 CST 2015


On 11/15/2015 9:14 PM, Jos Dreesen wrote:
> On 16.11.2015 00:10, Bob Rosenbloom wrote:
>> I was contacted by Micheal D. Cranford from the Tektronix Museum up 
>> in OR about
>> a design for a ROM module for the Tektronix 4051 graphic computer. It 
>> looks to be a very
>> useful item. See the description below. He's looking to build up some 
>> of them and make them
>> available. Cost would be about $100 each, assembled. He needs seven 
>> people to make it
>> worthwhile, I would take two, so we need five more people.
>>
>> Anyone interested? Let me know!
>>
> I could use 2, if they are also usable on a TEK4052.
> ( and if you are shipping outside US )
>
> Jos
>
>

Unfortunately the 4052 / 4054 are not supported. It's a bit slice 
(2901's) design
which only emulates some of the 6800 instructions, but not all. The ROM 
packs are not
compatible. The memory structure is different also.

Bob

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