Re: A86: Re: Taking apart the TI-86...


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Re: A86: Re: Taking apart the TI-86...






Ricci E. Adams wrote:

> Does Zilog make any Z80 chips above 6MHz?  If so, coudn't you just take out
> the Z80-6 and pop in a Z80-8 or Z80-10?  That way you woudn't have to
> reprogram the OS, since it would still be a Z80.
>

>

The internal timing circitry would need to be changed out, your much better off just turboing the calc.        -Michael

>                                                                                                                   - Ricci Adams
>                                                                                                                         ricci@chipsnet.com
>
> At 04:29 PM 3/26/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >>3.  There are numbers on the transistors, diodes, transformers, etc... and
> >I
> >>was wondering if these are places in asm where you call to
> >
> >ummm what? call the numbers on the circuitry? umm..... no the registers are
> >made by latches and flipflops in the circuitry and the calls are made to the
> >rom or ram in the calc
> >
> >>4.  Could you possibly take apart the processors, reconstruct them and put
> >an
> >>upgraded version in it (with more memory and recourses, faster, etc...)(I
> >>have a friend that makes processors and stuff and is professional)
> >
> >
> >processors dont store mem, unless its flash rom, and you could only
> >'reconstruct' a chip if it had flash rom and you had the hardware to flash
> >it, sure you could put in another chip, but then you would have to program
> >the os :)
> >




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