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From: srh@gatekeeper.mis.tridom.com (Steve Harmon)
Subject: Re: BASIC for STAMP clone
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Richard Steven Walz (rstevew@armory.com) wrote:
: That's right, Wally, I checked my Parallax catalog finally; the effective
: price you pay for having your $3.75 16C56 chip programmed with BASIC is
: about $12 just for code!! The empty ones are $3.75, the programmed ones are
: $18 one-sies and about $16 if you buy their kit of two sets with resonators
: and $1.25 serial EEPROM's. Sounds like time for a PD C tinyBASIC to cut
: them down to size!!
: -Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

    Actually, while you're (we're) at it why not also include operability
with some more interesting processors like the Z8604 or some such.  In fact
I believe that the Z8604 is considerably more powerful and about 1/2 the
price.  I've been tempted to do a stamp-like design for it but I always
seem to have other things to do <sigh>...

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