6502 CPU schematics

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Sun Mar 9 12:50:55 CST 2008


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>Subject: Re: 6502 CPU schematics
>   From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
>   Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:49:25 -0800
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>"Roy J. Tellason" wrote:
>> 
>> There was one other company,  though,  and I still can't recall the name,
>> that tried unsuccessfully to market some system that would let you plug in
>> different CPU boards to run different software.  I'm vaguely thinking of toy
>> company names,  but somehow that doesn't quite seem right.
>
>Thinker Toys?

Digital Group.

Cromemco

Compupro (8085/8088, Z80, 68000, and x86 later versions).

There were more than a few that were not exclusively one cpu.

If anything S100 was the most diverse for CPUs other than 
8080/8085/z80/8088/86/68000!  

Allison


>(.. 30 years later I finally clue in the name was a play on 'tinker toys'.)
>
>> Time frame
>> would've been a little later than a bunch of this other stuff,  maybe early
>> 1980s or so?


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