MOS Technology 6581
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The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID is the built-in programmable sound generator chip of the Commodore 64, Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 128, and MAX Machine home computers. Together with the VIC-II graphi
MOS Technology SIDs. The left chip is a 6581. The right chip is an 8580. CSG stands for Commodore Semiconductor Group. The numbers 3884 and 0692 are in WWYY form, i.e. the chips were produced week 38 of 1984 and week 06 of 1992. The last number is assumed to be a batch number.
6581R1 produced in 1982
6581 produced in 1982
6581R4 CDIP produced in 1986
Ensoniq
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Ensoniq Corp. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid-1980s and 1990s for its musical instruments, principally samplers and synthesizers.
MOS Technology 6581
…In the spring of 1983, the designer of the SID, Bob Yannes, left Commodore and would later go on to produce digital synthesizers at his new company, Ensoniq. The SID was devised by engineer Bob Yannes, who later co-founded the Ensoniq digital synthesizer and sampler company. Yannes headed a team that included…
Mirage DSK-1 (c. 1985)
Ensoniq ESQ-1 (1987)
ASR-10 (1992)
EPS (1988)