XPost: sci.electronics.components, sci.electronics.design, sci.e   
   ectronics.equipment   
   XPost: sci.electronics.repair   
      
   On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:19:15 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >krw@attt.bizz wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:55:12 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >   
   >> >Mark Zenier wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> In article ,   
   >> >> Michael A. Terrell  wrote:   
   >> >> >   Now tell everyone how you designed dozens of commercial products with   
   >> >> >the 8275. (Which was designed for 8085 based systems.) I don't recall   
   >> >> >ever seeing one in any hardware.  The 6545/6845 and the 5027 CRTC were   
   >> >> >what I've seen.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> The Intel MDS blue box system used it, if someone wants a design   
   >> >> example.   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> >   Was that their 8085 development system with the 8" disk drive?   
   >>   
   >> Diskette?   
   >   
   >   
   >   Sloppy disk. The drive in mine was bad,   
      
   That would be a diskette.  We had a pile of the MDS systems(mostly   
   x86) around work, networked together over one of their servers.  All   
   of them went in the trash heap a quarter century ago.  They worked but   
   they were *SLOW*.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)