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- From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: "Chip chat" AY-3-1015
- Message-ID: <19AUG199209464059@rover.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 15:46:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: rover.19AUG199209464059
- References: <10666281.14.714208429@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
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- 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?
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- The AY-3-1015 was one of the earliest UARTs. (Came out circa 1073.)
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- Just about any of the common 40-pin uarts will match.
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