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From: mckenzie@june.cs.washington.edu (Neil McKenzie)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Zilog SCC8530
Summary: free? hah!
Message-ID: <8893@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 89 18:22:24 GMT
References: <4076@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <13193@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: mckenzie@uw-june.cs.washington.edu (Neil McKenzie)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <13193@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dcw@athena.mit.edu (David C. Whitney) writes:
>In article <4076@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> friday@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Thomas A Mcdonald) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to program the Zilog SCC8530 serial com. chip?
>>		     Tom
>>		     (friday@vax1.acs.udel.EDU)
>
>WOW! I thought I'd never see something like this! I actually have some
>inkling of how to use it. I'm not ready to try to explain. You can get
>a manual from Zilog for free by just giving them a call. Look 'em up
                         ^^^^
>in the phone book. If you have trouble, I'll send you their
>address/phone.
>
>Dave Whitney	A junior (well, a senior) in Computer Science at MIT
>dcw@athena.mit.edu  ...!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!dcw  dcw@goldilocks.mit.edu

There is a Zilog research group in Campbell, California, near the interchange
between Winchester Blvd. and the San Tomas Expressway.  I guess this won't do as
an address, but it's a start.

When I was living in the area (San Jose), I went down there to get
documentation on the SCC chip.  I got a thin booklet and expected it to
be free, but those dweebs charged me something like six bucks!  I couldn't
find the same document anywhere else, so I had to pay.

I guess they had to make up for lost sales of their Z80000 in *some* way :-)
Funny thing is that their microcomputer group used the AT&T WE32100 CPU instead
of their own Zilog CPU's.  This was back in '86-'87 or so; I don't know
what they've been up to since.

--Neil McKenzie (mckenzie@june.cs.washington.edu)