I'm sure you don't aim to discourage anyone, but you know how I feel when I see a barrage(*) of minor corrections piled onto a beginner. I know that you feel differently about that - I'm not expecting you to change, but I feel it worthwhile to provide a balancing view.

I feel sure we used to be able to make those correcting points more deftly and with more encouragement.

Cheers
Ed
(*) it seems to me like a barrage. The new visitor may see it only once, the rest of us see it every time.

We all want the newcomer to be as successful as possible, and the CMOS processor will contribute toward that, although admittedly other factors will have even more effect. If it were me, I'd want to absorb all the info I could, trying to ride the peak of the curve between hungering for more info and OTOH getting overloaded.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

Love the enthusiasm and passion here. Will write an introduction!

Yes! It seems viable, could try it WW.

Thanks! Luckily I live by one of the very few component suppliers in London. At least they stock the TTL logic ICs.

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

If you're going 74AC or 74HC make sure, your design is all-CMOS. TTL (like non-CMOS 6502, or plain LS) outputs need ACT or HCT inputs.

André

Edit: _TTL_ outputs like non-CMOS 6502 or plain LS.

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

Torn between the SBC-2 and the UK101. In the meantime generate some clock with a crystal/555/microcontroller and poke around on the breadboard with an oscilloscope. Would like to wire wrap the SBC.

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x86?  We ain't got no x86.  We don't NEED no stinking x86!

I reckon I can hook up my microcontroller dev board to the Rockwell processor and 'fake' instructions. Both the SBC-2 and the UK101 lack keyboard and display. I wonder if it's possible to hook up a hex keypad and an LCD display to both? I just don't fancy the idea of having to use a 10000x times more powerful laptop to be able to use the SBC. Also, found a cheap (approx. £18) Willem burner, made in Canada on Ebay.

Just found an article about how to program EEPROMs manually. I also saw a DIY circuit somewhere for this task. What's your angle on this guys? EEPROM or EPROM?

This EEPROM burner looks great and would be a good start to learn WW. Again, loved to hear your opinion!

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I made myself a interface for that. I took a pic16f877, and i used the parallel slave port, and when the cpu writes a byte to it, the mcu displays it on the lcd display(with the regular Hitachi controller), and when the cpu reads the mcu it outputs the pressed key on a ps/2 keyboard. The only tricky part is that you can't read or write data in a thigh loop, because the mcu would get too much interrupts, and it couldn't handle then all on time, so i just added nop instructions after every read/write to the mcu port, and it works perfectly. I never set the code for download, since i never finished the i2c part that is supposed to communicate to the rtc chip. If you want i can send you the code, source and hex, and just program the mcu with it and it works.
I also used it in my 68k sbc, and it works there too.