[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Big 640x200 LCDs, 9 left

[Ben Bleything]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008, dan p wrote:
> was pulling the micro from the trunk and showing the wife (who was not that
> impressed) but noticed something that doesn't look like it belongs.

Oh, I think it does :)

> a board with two chips, a cap, a resistor and an LED, maybe it is called a
> 10 scope? that is what is on  the board. Doesn't look like it was part of
> the terminal.

IOscope, probably.

> a) do you want it?
> b) what is it?

I think what you found was the credit card masking unit.  It's made by a
company called IOscope, and has a Z80 and some other stuff on it.  It
sits between the terminal and the printer, and intercepts and Xs out the
credit card numbers.

> I looked for a spec sheet for the "big chip" but didn't find one (really
> didn't look that hard)
> 
> a ziplog Z0861108PSC

It's 'zilog', which is probably why you didn't find much :)

Ben