early embedded microprocs, was Re: OT: Tube Audio

[Joe R.]

At 01:04 AM 10/22/05 -0700, you wrote:
>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.

  That's a closely guarded secret. The chip collectors like to buy up such
items and strip them for the collectable ICs.

     Joe