On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:50 AM Konrad B <konrad0x42@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, fast 65c02 or maybe ce02 or c816 based MCUs with internal Flash > and RAM (and not these Mitsubishi MELPs devices, which you could only > buy in zillions and had 100 Flash rewrites guaranteed or so) were > something I dreamt about... last century ;) > > Now if we talk about 6530/6560-61/6581 and all these fancy CSG/MOS > chips - some time ago we learned about documents and backup tapes > being found in the abandoned GMT/MOS HQ. One gentelmen kindly > explained us that "there were no tape drives there so the tapes are > trash", but this is still something that concerns me - does anyone > know if all of these things (tapes, docs) were put in garbage bin ? I refuse to believe there's no way to read those tapes. There're a few folks on vcfed.org forum that can surely find a way to read anything, it's just a matter of speaking with the right persons, imho. The problem is probably there's no chip farm with the right process active to reproduce the old designs. I was always curious about how would it costs to re-activate such an old process and start making these chips again. Also, on the purely digital chips, one would just need a bonding machine to rewire a "modern logic implementation" to a compatible DIP chip package. The mixed analog/digital chips on the other hand would need to be recreated with the old manufacturing process (SID, VIC and few others). I doubt however that there's enough market even to justify the "rebonding logic" approach which should be far cheaper than setting up a complete chip farm. Frank > > Regards, > Konrad > śr., 12 wrz 2018 o 22:10 didier derny <didier@aida.org> napisał(a): > > > > for me it would be like a sheep with 5 legs... > > > > if I want a 6502 / z80 or 68000 I take a real one.... > > > > if I want something modern I take an avr, or an arm.... > > > > > > I would find replacement for: 6530 / 6560 / 6561 / 6581.... more > > interesting... > > > > > > On 9/12/2018 7:15 AM, Daniel O'Shea wrote: > > > Not sure they are going to meet their funding target, but I have to > > > admit it is an interesting proposition - custom ASIC that can act as a > > > Z80 or a 6502 or a 68000! > > > > > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/chips4makers/retro-uc > > > > > >Received on 2018-09-13 11:00:06
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