7201 (was Re: Z8530 (was Re: Navtel 9460 Protocol Analyzer info?))

[Tom Jennings]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Allison wrote:

> As a result I ahve a bunch of them and never use them.  Ise the 2681,
> 8251 or 8250 before that beastie.

8251! Now there's a turkey! At least it was simple. One of the
buggiest pieces of crap I ever had to initialize.

> The only thing worse to design with and use was the COM2501, dumb
> as a stump.

Serial chips, I get post-traumatic-stress just thinking about
them.