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From: kingdom@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Kingdom)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Search for a Microprocessor
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Date: 4 Mar 91 22:22:04 GMT
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>Unless this is intended as a learning project, consider using a "toy" 
>personal computer... something like a Commodore Vic 20 would be perfect.
>If you want, you could even burn your program into a game cartridge EPROM.
>Strange?  Not really...
>It has a microprocessor, keyboard, video display, a good BASIC interpreter,
>several assemblers avalible, and can power-on execute a "game" program.
>Dig around in the closet - there are probably a couple on the shelf there.
>Think about it....

Not only that, but you could pick up an IBM XT motherboard for $30 surplus
to use as the central processor. Then you could do the development on a
PC, test it on a PC, etc, then burn a ROM for the $30 mother board. That
would limit your hardware development and testing to the extra control
devices you were getting from Radio Shack. Just a thought....