reece@Nadc@sri-unix (10/22/82)
A good cheap micro for some purposes is the Micro Morrow from Morrow designs. It has 64K, 2 5" drives built in, a fairly nice terminal with detachable keyboard + many features, built-in diagnostics, and a whole bunch of software for about $1900 or so. The computer with drives looks to be about the size of an average stereo receiver. It runs CP/M. If anyone is in- terested in group purchase, I think the price woul be lower. -------
hall@ittral.UUCP (Doug Hall) (09/07/84)
------------ sun!gnu says: >Every keyboard built in the last 3 years uses an 8048 or 8049 single >chip micro, or its EPROM version the 8748/8749. They must cost like $1 >or less and they're pretty reasonable little beasts if you don't have >much of a job to do, e.g. like polling a bunch of switches and sending >the transitions down a serial line bit-by-bit, pretending to be a UART. This is totally false. There have been thousands of keyboards built in the last few years without so much as a hint of an 8048/8748. Besides, you don't even need the power (?) of an 8748 for keyboard applications unless you plan to have function keys and all that stuff. But that's not the point. Go out and try to buy some 8748's. Tell the vendor you want to pay $1 for them. He'll laugh in your face. Very few micros are that cheap, even in quantities. 8748's aren't even close. A few months ago they were pretty hard to find (maybe they still are) and people were paying $40-50 EACH. >From the non-8748 keyboard of Doug Hall ittvax!ittral!hall