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All the parts were sourced as free samples from [http://www.maxim-ic.com/ Maxim] under various psuedonyms since the MAX458 crosspoints were actually worth about £40 each. | All the parts were sourced as free samples from [http://www.maxim-ic.com/ Maxim] under various psuedonyms since the MAX458 crosspoints were actually worth about £40 each. | ||
To avoid the obsolescence problem that the Breaker 88 unit suffered, there were two muxes. | To avoid the obsolescence problem that the Breaker 88 unit suffered, there were two muxes. One live, then a spare circuit board and set of 7 chips were in storage in case of failure, the controller made using a cheap reprogrammable micro controller. Some 885 lines of assembler code are all that were required in the micro to perform all of its control functions. | ||
==Today== | ==Today== |