Looks like these Micropods were originally made by Solartron, who were perhaps acquired by Schlumberger, and now you see them after Fairchild got involved.

Wow, thanks BigEd, that's lots of useful information. I do vaguely remember the disaster that was Schulmberger buying Fairchild, I didn't ...

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This 6502 trainer you mentioned, would it be the Unilab "Three Chip Plus" (an ultra bare-bones 6502 board) which you mentioned in your Introduce Yourself post ? We'll have a better chance of helping if you can supply plenty of info about the trainer and the Micropod.

-- Jeff ...

I found a strange device in the bottom of a box of 6502 trainers, probably used to diagnose problems. I can't find anything useful and my Google-fu is outclassed... The device is called "Fairchild 72406C MICROPOD for 6502" - I have put a 6502 into the ZIF socket and plugged the pin header into a ...

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I grew up with scientific computing, my first coding was on a PDP-8/E in Fortran, then later I got a KIM-1 as a kit and learnt to solder at the same time. My first "real" computer was a Research Machines 380Z (Z80 based, CP/M, disc - Oxford, UK) and from there I went around the houses before ...

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No problem at all, more than happy to help if I can & hopefully learn something new myself while I’m at it.


Here is a link to what I got hold of. Unfortunately is a bit sparse although the brochure is quite cool:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!As5Cnv80l9bphsR-sX26JHwBr41eZA?e=s6OHpa

The most useful ...