[vcf-midatlantic] IM-6100 Availability (PDP-8 on a chip)

[Douglas Crawford]

On 2/27/2017 12:08 PM, Systems Glitch via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> All,
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> I had a component supplier get back to me today -- they appear to have several *hundred* IM-6100s in stock. Looks like I'll be able to do a bulk purchase on these to at least fill OSI 560Z kit needs. Contact me off-list if you'd like to purchase some of these CPUs independent of a 560Z kit.
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> Information: the IM-6100 is an Intersil product that implements most of a PDP-8/e on a single chip. It doesn't handle memory management like the later 6120, but you can implement it yourself. It's used in the Ohio Scientific 560Z "Processor Lab" to allow PDP-8 code to be executed on an OSI system.
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> Thanks,
> Jonathan
Very interesting!  That's probably the IC that was used in the homebrew 
'8 that we have in the museum?

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