> On Mar 9, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote:
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> On 03/09/2016 09:28 AM, william degnan wrote:
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>> Not a lot is said about early use of microprocessors in industrial
>> microcomputers. Everything you read about is so home computing
>> oriented, but I believe actual sales would have been greater in the
>> industrial space
>
> Do you count that 1-bit MC14500 dingus as a microprocessor? :)
Not quite industrial, but an interesting early microcontroller application I
remember is from around 1977, a music synthesizer keyboard (possibly the first
one that was sensitive to how hard you hit the keys) using an RCA 1802
microcontroller. It acted as a peripheral to an 8080 based "host" -- a PLATO
terminal with a waveform synthesizer attached, along with that keyboard.
paul
