First one would need to make a board capable of doing anything, then write software for it. Too much effort compared to just a general purpose all-in-one microcontroller.
I do have a late-1980s single board computer at home, I think it's based on the NEC V20 (80186 clone?). It has onboard serial ports, floppy controller, SCSI? or IDE controller, etc. And the company that made it (Megatel?) was cool enough to email me PDF manuals of their 18-year-old product that I hadn't actually purchased from them.
If I had taffer's ninja skills, I could probably throw them into someone's open mouth so that they choked on them and died. Or maybe I can grind enough of them up and give someone lead poisoning...
I don't think Motorola ever made a 6502 copy; the chip came from a group that left Motorola, came up with the 6501 first, and then nearly got sued by Motorola because of it. They then came up with the 6502 to replace that part, and MOS had a winner.
Right, right, that was probably a MOS chip as well. I was going on memory there, since I didn't want to dig out the chip in question to take a look at it - it's the one that I pulled from the Apple II clone.
I think the 1 MHz Zilog CPU, PIO and DART came off some controller board from an old ATM - it had a ROM marked "CIBC" on it.
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He could whip them into a half life 2 style hovering ID robot ...
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I do have a late-1980s single board computer at home, I think it's based on the NEC V20 (80186 clone?). It has onboard serial ports, floppy controller, SCSI? or IDE controller, etc. And the company that made it (Megatel?) was cool enough to email me PDF manuals of their 18-year-old product that I hadn't actually purchased from them.
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I think the 1 MHz Zilog CPU, PIO and DART came off some controller board from an old ATM - it had a ROM marked "CIBC" on it.
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