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From: timothy@chem.eng.usyd.edu.au (Timothy Newbury)
Subject: 6502 and Scrapping
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 09:44:55 GMT

Hi everyone!

I've been listening in to this group for a number of months now and finally 
have something to say:

Recently I visited a computer scrapper depot in search of old floppy drives 
and the like for stripping out stepper motors/DC motors and odd bits.  I 
discovered that there is a multitude of useful bits including led/detector 
pairs for position sensing (zeroing), microswitches etc etc (I'd recommend 
this to anyone who hasn't done so yet - There's a gold mine out there!).

What I also found in amongst the $40 worth of "junk" was three sets of 6502 
CPUs with 6522 VIAs which, although old, are probably OK and I'd like to use 
them for some kind of robotic/control type application.

I was wondering if anyone could steer me in the direction of an appropriate 
FTP site where 6502 assemblers, development tools, data etc may be found.

While I'm here, is the 6502 still used? (These came from fairly primitive 
archaic machines/devices but I understand the old Commodoore 64 was based on a 
6502)

Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Tim (timothy@cerisc.chem.eng.usyd.edu.au)


