early embedded microprocs, was Re: OT: Tube Audio

[Brent Hilpert]

Allison wrote:
> That and we reaching the point where computers and radios that contain
> or are married to them are over 10 years old (some a whole lot older,
> think Pioneer).

.. a couple of years ago a friend asked me to repair two Sherwood "Micro CPU
100" Stereo FM tuners from ~1974-76 which had an embedded RCA 1802 microprocessor.
This was a high-end consumer product in it's time.

While the construction was atrocious (high-end consumer construction,
still in the low end of the spectrum of electronics construction) they were
interesting  (and 'collectable' / 'significant') as they would have been one
of the first consumer products to use an embedded microprocessor in something
other than a 'computing product' (i.e. not a computer or calculator).

Actually it might be nice to build a list of such 70's era products that
(non-obviously) contain embedded microprocessors.

(Hey, back on-topic.)