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General Instrument Memorabilia

​Company: General Instrument
Based: Horsham, Pennsylvania
Founded: 1939 (
spun off as Microchip Technology in 1987)
Founder:  Milton Jerrold Shapp
Specialty: .Manufacturer of LSI circuits and a pioneer in MOS technology, with both off-the-shelf and custom circuits. manufacturer of diodes, transistors, and logic chips including: 16-bit Microprocessor: CP1600 and 1610, a 16-bit CPU, used in the GIMINI TV-game set and in Mattel's Intellivision, 8-bit Microcontroller the PIC1650, an NMOS chip. The CMOS version of this chip is the basis of today's PIC microcontrollers. ROM chips for Apple II and other early home computers, Electrically Alterable ROM (EAROM) chips, and Telecommunications chips and cable tv chips for their Jerrold brand of electronic devices. ​
General Instrument discrete semiconductor devices
General Instrument discrete semiconductor devices (1985)

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General Instrument Apple II ROM Chip Paperweight  (1987)

Apple II ROM chip General Instruments
Item #1031


General Instrument was one of a few semiconductor manufacturers who made ROM chips to supply to Apple Computer for use in their Apple II and II+ models of home computers during the late 1970's and 1980's.

This Lucite paperweight contains a General Instrument 2kB D0 Programmer's Aid, masked 2316, ROM chip used in the Apple II and Apple II+ home computers.

​Chips is marked with Apple part # 341-0016-00, with a datecode of 1981.

Apple II ROM chip
Closeup of the Apple II computer ROM chip
Jerrold Communications division of General Instruments supplier of cable  TV and wireless cable equipment division in Hatboro PA
Jerrold Communications division of General Instruments supplier of cable TV and wireless cable equipment division in Hatboro PA (1993)
Related:           Apple Computer       ROM chips      Memory Chips

​Integrated Ciruits         Vintage Apple Computer CPU's
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