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From: cook@stout.ucar.edu (Forrest Cook)
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Subject: Re: Anybody know what this is??
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Date: 2 May 89 17:17:26 GMT
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>In article <3340003@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> mjr@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Mark Reed) writes:
>> The 1402 may be an RCA CMOS micro.  (?)
>No, the RCA micro is 1802 (a.k.a. COSMAC).  I don't know what a 1402 is,

I think the 1402 is one of those old fashioned UART chips.
(Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter)  They are (were) typically used
to implement RS-232 async serial to parallel conversion.


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