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From: davec@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( DAVE CHU )
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: SP0256-AL2 XTAL (was Re: Looking for SPO256-AL2 chip)
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Date: 2 Nov 90 02:18:32 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.232018.24991@infonode.ingr.com> girzong@infonode.ingr.com (Gary Girzon) writes:
>
>does anyone know a good source for the 3.12 MHZ crystal required with
>the SP0256? also, will a standard colorburst (3.58 MHZ) crystal work,
>perhaps with a higher pitch?
>-- 
>Gary Girzon				...!uunet!ingr!optron!gary!gary
>Optronics, An Intergraph Division	(508) 256-4511 x8691


I've used this chip before for a project, and found that the colorburst
crystal works just as well as the 3.12MHz crystal.  It does produce a
higher pitch and I did not experienced any timming problem with
the higher clock rate.  Hope this helps, bye.


davec@maxwell.concordia.ca
davec@davinci.concordia.ca