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From: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: MB 8877 A <-- datasheet wanted
Keywords: Floppy-Controller MB8877A
Message-ID: <14536@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 7 Sep 89 15:53:15 GMT
References: <3848@cosmo2.UUCP>
Reply-To: kencr@haddock.ima.isc.com (Kenny Crudup)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge MA
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In article <3848@cosmo2.UUCP> fifi@cosmo.UUCP (A.F.Zinser) says:
>Can anybody out there tell me *anything* about this chip. I've found
>it inside a TATUNG TP2000 - instead a WD1793! It seems as if there is
>no complete compatibity... Who knows the manufacturer, has a datasheet
>or can help another way?
                              F
     What's printed on it:    MB 8877A
                              8322   Z00

>Thanks in advance, A.Zinser

It *is* a 1793. From your chip-stamp, it looks like its made (2nd sourced?)
by Fairchild. I remember using them when I fixed CP/M computers. They were
cheaper, I believe.

-- 
Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, Interactive Systems Co.(386/ix), Cambridge MA
						   Phone (617) 661 7474 x238
Bensonhurst, NYC - Howard Beach '89. Kinder, gentler huh? Right!!
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