Original edition of Osborne's An Introduction to Microcomputers?

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I’m wondering if anyone here has a copy of the original Volume 2 of Osborne’s An Introduction to Microcomputers?

I’m looking for more sources on the EA9002 and PPS-8, and the first edition, from 1976, is pretty much the only book that ever covered them.

Both were soon cancelled and the second edition, from 1978, removed those chapters.

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Interesting, I’ve got both 1st and 2nd editions of volume 1 physically, but only a PDF version of what I thought was 1st edition of vol-II, dated 1976, 1977. Nowhere inside does it cover either the EA9002 or PPS-8. I do have a 1976 PDF version of Branko Soucek Microprocessors and Microcomputers, which does cover the PPS-8.

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Big ask, but would you mind listing the processors that are in the first edition? I’m looking for anything out of the mainstream that needs coverage.

I found the Soucek book on the archive, I’ll start with that, thanks for the ref!

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Here you go:

Chp 1 TMS1000
Chp 2 F8(3850, 3851), 3856, 3857, 3852, 3854, 3853, 3859
Chp 3 SC/MP
Chp 4 8080A, 8224, 8228, 8251, UPD379, UPD369, 8255, 8212, 8257, 8253, 8259,
8214, TMS5501
Chp 5 8085, 8155/8156, 8355, 8755
Chp 6 8048, 8748, 8035, 8243
Chp 7 Z80, PIO, CTC, DMA
Chp 8 MC6800, 6802, 6870,71,75, 6820, 6850, 6852, MC8507, MC6828
Chp 9 MOS6500, 6522, 6530, 6532
Chp 10 Sig 2650
Chp 11 RCA Cosmac
Chp 12 IM6100, IM6101
Chp 13 SMS300, SMS360
Chp 14 NS PACE, DP8302, DP8301
Chp 15 GI CP1600
Chp16 TMS9900
Chp 17 9440 MicroNOVA
Chp 18 2900 and 6700 bit-slice products
Chp 19 MC10800 Chip Slice logic
Chp 20 HP MC2

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My pdf of first edition (1976) has:
Chap8: PPS-8
Chap11: EA9002
Otherwise as indicated above - except 8085, 8048 and HP MC2 omitted

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Is this your own copy or did you find it online?

I had never heard of the MC2 until now, but it seems to be slightly better documented, as HP ads seem to be more widely spread.

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It’s a copy of the internet archive content from before they had ‘issues’.

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Thanks, I’m reading through it now. This copy didn’t turn up the last time I look on Archive, but their search engine is abysmal so that’s not entirely surprising.

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