Fw: Deck of IBM PLAYING CARDS GOES FOR $325

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/18/2005 at 11:15 PM William Donzelli wrote:

>I seem to recall that the 205 was indeed made of a relative handful of
>chip types, based off a standard simple gate array. I do not know who
>fabbed the things.

I believe it may have been Fairchild.   IIRC, the "proof of concept" was a
6400 CPU made out of the things at ADL.  I can't recall how many PCBs were
involved, but I seem to recall being impressed at the relatively low board
count.

Cheers,
Chuck