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In article <3128@ncar.ucar.edu> cook@stout.UCAR.EDU (Forrest Cook) writes:
>>In article <3340003@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> mjr@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Mark Reed) writes:
>>> The 1402 may be an RCA CMOS micro.  (?)
>>No, the RCA micro is 1802 (a.k.a. COSMAC).  I don't know what a 1402 is,
>
>I think the 1402 is one of those old fashioned UART chips.
>(Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)  They are (were) typically used
>to implement RS-232 async serial to parallel conversion.
>

Probably you are thinking of the TR1602 UART, made by Western Digital. I did
not see the original question (I haven't been able to keep up with the net),
but I looked in an old IC Master, it lists a 1402A dynamic shift register
(256 bits by 4 registers) made by AMD, Intel, Synertek. I have a data sheet
in a 1978 Synertek catalog. (of course I don't have any idea if this is the
answer, since I don't know what the question was :-))

By the way, are there any other 1802 hackers out there? The 1802 was my
Idea of the perfect computer, I even built a couple. The power supply was
4 size 'D' NiCd batteries, with a trickle charger at home. I didn't have
to go home too often though, It could go a week or two between charges.


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