> I'd like to take a look at them. I pulled my 6502 pod apart just
> before the Holidays, and it looks like it's full of mysterious
> house-numbered parts.
The pods are all pretty similar. They contain one of the
target CPUs (run at host clock speed), native code in
EPROM and a bunch a latches. The only really custom
stuff are the thick-film hybrids used for current sensing
on CPU signals.
Unrelated, if anyone has some time, check out
http://www.timestore.com/pages/mhj/mjstuff.htm .
This guy has some stories about his math-box
programming experiences (well 2901 anyway),
as well as some other engineering feats. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BE3A7D.F9030400
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