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Article #6907Re: "Chip chat" AY-3-1015
From: Mark Zenier
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:31
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:31
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frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger) writes: : In article <10666281.14.714208429@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>, 10666281@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (KEVIN PRATER) writes... : >I ve just dug out an old project for an xy plotter : >from electronics and wireless world dec 1984. : >It had a chip marked AY-3-1015 which they said was a uart chip. : >can I substitute a NS16450 at uart for this? No. : Just about any of the common 40-pin uarts will match. UARTS were never common, being made by the smaller stranger semiconductor companies. The 6402 from Intersil and Harris should work. Standard Micro[systems?] and Western Digital are other companies to check out. Active Electronics still has both some GI parts and 6402's in their last catalog. Mark Zenier markz@ssc.wa.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!sumax!thebes!ole!ssc!markz From: markz@ssc.wa.com (Mark Zenier) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: "Chip chat" AY-3-1015 Message-ID: <1992Aug21.013139.9923@ssc.wa.com> Date: 21 Aug 92 01:31:39 GMT References: <19AUG199209464059@rover.uchicago.edu> Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 19 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3