I don't understand why people waste time messing about with obsolete stuff like this (and why so many people think it's cool) when there so much more interesting and useful stuff that can be done with modern parts.
Says the man who rips old x-ray machines apart...
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But then again . i also don't understand that. Even though the 6502 lives on in several other processors ( remember the DIGIT-2000 digital TV chipsets from ITT ? Those were driven by an 6502. There is other chips out there used in TV's that are also 6502 driven... then again TV's with picture tubes are also dinosaurs. hmm. i guess you;re right )
Let's find the most obscure , unobtainable processor and try to make a one of a kind computer with it. and then try to port linux onto it .. for fun
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while the digikey and mouser catalogs have hundreds of thousands of interesting components to play with.
Building a small computer around the 6502 is going to cost you more in parts ( ram eprom , a 6522 'pia' (parallel interface adapter) for parallel and 6521 'acia' (asynchronous communications interface adapter) for serial comms. probably will need to slap on an 6845 to drive an old picture tube tv. you'll have to bodge a monitor program , display driver routine , make character generator rom... . and you can get a single chip that has more ram ,eprom , serial ports and i/o and runs at 50 times the speed for 1.5$ in the form of a PIC or an AVR...
But hey, to each his own. Some people tinker with 6502 , some people tinker with glass balloons containing bits of scrap metal that they heat , some people use a rusty needle on a block of galene. who are we to decide what they should do. The point of hobby electronics is having fun. If it were for a commercial undertaking ... then again many a tube amp rakes in big bucks from audiophools. maybe there is a market for nostalgia computers too.... but , look at the soft glow of the characters being slowly written dancing on the amber picture tube. you just can't get that warm fuzzy feeling from a sharp LCD being refreshed a thousand times a second and feeding you num,bers calculated at GHz speed. it just doesn;t feel the same ...
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