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    Synertek, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1973. The initial staff consisted of Bob Schreiner (the CEO), Dan Floyd, Jack Balletto...
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    factories. For initial production, Zilog licensed the Z80 to U.S.-based Synertek and Mostek, along with European second-source manufacturer, SGS. The design...
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    The SYM-1 is a single board "trainer" computer produced by Synertek Systems in 1975. It was designed by Ray Holt.[citation needed] Originally called the...
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    to the design of the MP944 microprocessor. Subsequently he co-founded Synertek in 1973, where he served as the company's primary chip designer. One of...
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    In the early days of the 6502, it was second-sourced by Rockwell and Synertek, and later licensed to other companies. In 1981, the Western Design Center...
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  • acquired by semiconductor manufacturer Synertek, a second source manufacturer of the 6502, and renamed Synertek Systems. It then created the SYM-1, a 6502-based...
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  • was at Intel. He later went to work for a number of startups, including Synertek, Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk. He and Sanjay Mehrotra co-founded...
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  • and scooters the SYM-1, a single board "trainer" computer produced by Synertek N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, a model of particles in mathematics...
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    the 6522 was second sourced by other companies including Rockwell and Synertek. The 6522 was widely used in computers of the 1980s, particularly Commodore's...
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  • Manny Lemas of Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated, later known as Synertek Systems where he designed the Jolt, Super Jolt and SYM-1 microcomputer...
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  • Operating System) CPU Zilog Z80 @ 2 MHz Memory 16 kB or 32 kB Graphics Synertek 6545 CRT controller for 64 × 16 characters (512 × 256 pixels) Sound Monotonic...
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    officially released sometime shortly after. WDC licensed the design to Synertek, NCR, GTE Microcircuits, and Rockwell Semiconductor. Rockwell's primary...
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    Atari wanted a second source of the chipset. Peddle and Paivinen suggested Synertek whose co-founder, Bob Schreiner, was a friend of Peddle. In October 1975...
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    computers went on sale on June 10, 1977 with a MOS Technology 6502 (later Synertek) microprocessor running at 1.023 MHz, 4 KB of RAM, an audio cassette interface...
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    and production of some critical products was shifted to a friendly fab (Synertek) in Silicon Valley. Several employees played a key role in the Telecommunications...
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    ordeal. Rockwell International—who second-sourced the 6502, along with Synertek—released their own microcomputer in one board in 1978, the AIM-65. The...
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    in six months", Wozniak said. The Apple III is powered by a 2 megahertz Synertek 6502A or 6502B 8-bit CPU (operating effectively between 1.4 and 1.8 MHz...
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    65C02 with his production partners, primarily Rockwell Semiconductor and Synertek. The primary goal of the 65C02 effort was to move from the original 6502's...
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  • was founded in 1979, by a trio from Fairchild Semiconductor by way of Synertek – Jack Balletto, Dan Floyd, and Gunnar Wetlesen – and by Doug Fairbairn...
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    ago (1993-11-15) Operating system Apple DOS 3.3 ProDOS CPU MOS Technology/Synertek 6502 @ 1.023 MHz (Original IIe) NCR/GTE 65C02 @ 1.023 MHz (Enhanced IIe...
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    6510 General information Common manufacturer MOS Technology, Rockwell, Synertek Performance Max. CPU clock rate 0.985 MHz to 1.023 MHz Data width 8 Address...
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    MHz version, produced by DEC), 21-17311-00 (second source, 7.5 MHz, from Synertek), and 21-17311-02 (10 MHz version, produced by DEC). A clone of the T-11...
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  • Bulgaria, 82 is the model year. BASIC interpreter, RAM/ROM - 48/12 KB; CPU Synertek 6502 /1 MHz. The storage is improved due to the availability of (optional)...
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    Kombinat Mikroelektronik Erfurt Karl Marx (MME) UC8810D (mask ROM version) Synertek Z8-03RS (piggy-back EPROM version) The "Encore!" products contains the...
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    display line, the CPU is unable to access the RAM. (The Electron uses the Synertek variant of the 6502 processor as that allowed the clock to be stopped for...
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    licensed the 650x line from MOS, including Rockwell International, GTE, Synertek, and Western Design Center (WDC). A number of different versions of the...
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    Atmos, Nintendo Entertainment System, Watara Supervision game console, Synertek Systems SYM-1 and Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P. Officially supported host...
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  • been manufactured by MOS technology or Rockwell. A version of 6530-004 by Synertek exists. MOS 6530 datasheet (GIF format, zipped) MOS 6530 datasheet (PDF...
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    registers Zipped TIFs of the 6845 data sheets Differences of CRTC models Synertek 6545 Application Note MC6845 Timing Calculator, calculate register values...
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  • and new designs rapidly emerged. MOS Technology licensed Rockwell and Synertek to second-source the 6502 microprocessor and its support components. Intel...
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