Atari used them by the truckload too, and again, probably due to price. I'm sure somebody is probably still producing them, or can. It was a very durable item; once, on a lark, we took one that had been run over by a truck and sat out in the weather for who knows how long, bent the pins enough to solder it to a 40pin header and tried it out in a CBM 8032....it worked...
I kind of wish I had been working back then when stuff was so robust.... Now we have poly Ta caps that have a real shelf life that's not MSL related. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:03:54 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material In message <1548123648.14120691264567016061.javamail.r...@sz0108a.emeryville.ca .mail.comcast.net>, d.sei...@comcast.net writes: >I guess I wasn't too clear; it was the bare devices we were trying to destroy; >the VIC20 was just used for testing. The 6502 was a very robust device manufactured in NMOS technology. The original target market was motorolas very lucrative military/space 6800 market, so the chip had to match or exceed the 6800 on all points, including accidental damage. The first version, the 6501 was in fact pin- but not instruction-compatible with 6800, but Motorola had a legal fit and MOS gave up on that idea. The fact that 6502 mainly ended up in Commodore computers was mainly a matter of its lower price. Later the crash in microprocessor prices saddled Jack Tramiel with a huge overpriced inventory which made him outright buy MOS to avoid a repeat performance of that problem. Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
