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Like 19 Nov 2023 at 5:27 | Open on mastodon.social

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Irenes (many)

@tubetime "gang members"

that's quite something

19 Nov 2023 at 5:28 | Open on mastodon.social

Jonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant

@tubetime I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Chandler, AZ and I didn’t not know it was the home of Microchip.

19 Nov 2023 at 7:33 | Open on hachyderm.io

NCommander

@tubetime Who knew a microchip ad could feel so threating ...

19 Nov 2023 at 8:15 | Open on social.restless.systems

Simon Frankau

@tubetime Impressive that it can manage to be both wildly distasteful and anti-competitive.

19 Nov 2023 at 10:56 | Open on mastodon.xyz

MarkAtMicrochip

@tubetime I’m fascinated by some of the specifics in this ad. They had just moved to AZ (from NY). The logo (there’s an extra notch in the m) and the device they’re advertising doesn’t exist. To my knowledge, this is pre-PIC16.

19 Nov 2023 at 11:09 | Open on mastodon.social

Tube❄️Time

@MarkAtMicrochip see page 86 of https://bitsavers.org/magazines/Computer_Design/Computer_Design_V28_N09_19890501.pdf for the article describing the part.

The ad is in the same issue. Page 99.

19 Nov 2023 at 17:00 | Open on mastodon.social

MarkAtMicrochip

@tubetime thanks for this. I’ll go digging and see what I can find.

21 Nov 2023 at 14:16 | Open on mastodon.social

MarkAtMicrochip

@tubetime I finally got around to looking this up. As near as I can tell, it went EOL over 20 years ago. I can’t find much more about it. I didn’t do an exhaustive analysis, but the instruction set looks very similar.

22 Nov 2023 at 13:33 | Open on mastodon.social

UpLateGeek

@tubetime they may actually be serious, the logo does kind-of look like two pistols.

19 Nov 2023 at 14:53 | Open on bitbang.social

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