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From: ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Search for a Microprocessor
Message-ID: <21509@teda.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:28:50 GMT
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In article <8661.27cc7da1@jetson.uh.edu> mece1v0@jetson.uh.edu writes:
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-I am searching for a microprocessor that was
-discussed in one of the electronics magazine. The
-one I am interested in had a built in Basic
-interpreter that allowed the EPROM to be programed
-in straight basic.

You are looking for the 8052AH-BASIC (a member of the 8051/52 family with
BASIC in rom.  I believe Jameco sells it (but watch out for their new $50
minimum.)  Your best bet is to call Micro Mint (Steve Ciarcia's group).
They sell the chip, and a whole slew of single-board systems based on it.
Their phone number is 800 635-3355.

-I am going to use two of the Sharp
-infrared modules sold by Radio Shack as the
-transducers.
Just remeber that the LED will have to be running at 40 KHz for the detector
to pick it up.  Steve had an article on a laser beam-break detector in
an issue of Circuit Cellar Ink a few issues back.  Micromint should also 
sell back-issues of CCI.

-  My goals are to have four readouts
-available which are feet per second, meters per
-second, miles per hour, and kilometers per hour. 
You may want to use one of those LCD 2 linex20 char displays for this.
Info on talking to them is in back-issues of CCI, R-E, PopTronics, or
Modern. (I am sure of CCI and R-E.  At least one of the other two also had it)

Send me mail if you can't find those back issues.

Good Luck.
/mike
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