Re: Electronics for Physicists

["Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>]

Mark, you bring back memories!  In the 70's I was enamoured with the
RCA1802 - a CPU chip with lots of registers, some RAM and even a simple
video generator (all on one chip) - it was the basis of the hobbiest ELF
computer (of happy memory!)

While in industry I also worked with the 18031 and 18051 for controlling
sterilizer cycles.  It was new territory then - great fun.  (this was all
done in machine language at first - later assembler languages were
available).
-Bob

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (ret)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sylvester <msylvest@spin.it>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Date: Sunday, September 20, 1998 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Electronics for Physicists


> Friends in the engineering world tell me that microcontrollers are the
> thing. These chips contain a cpu, just enough RAM and somewhat more
> programmable ROM. They now cost very little - from $2 to $10 a chip. The
> nice thing about them is that a physicist with only very basic
electronics
> can set up a circuit that will do just about anything you want. Has
anyone
> used these things?
>
> Mark.