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National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor Memorabilia
Company: National Semiconductor Corporation
Based: Santa Clara, CA.
Founded: 1959
Founder: Dr. Bernard J. Rothlein
Specialty: Developing & Manufacturing semiconductor, power management circuits, display drivers, audio & operational amplifiers & communication interface products
National Semiconductor Wafer Fab
Inside National Semiconductor's wafer fab in South Portland, Maine





National Advanced Systems NAS AS/6100 Microprocessor (1982)​

National semiconductor microprocessor paperweight
Item #014
 The AS/6100 microprocessor, released in 1982, was the brains behind the National Advanced System (NAS) AS/XL mainframe computer system. NAS was a subsidy of National Semiconductor.

The AS/6100 logic chip used VLSI technology and was manufactured on 4" wafers by Motorola using their 1200-gate MECL 10K Emitter Coupled Logic (ECL) Circuitry.

The AS/XL Computer System was designed from scratch to compete with the IBM 4341 Mainframe Computer system.

By 1983 NAS stopped production of it's mainframes and became a reseller of Hitachi made mainframe systems.  In 1989 Hitachi Data Systems was founded when Hitachi Ltd. & Electronic Data Systems (EDS) acquired National Advanced Systems from National Semiconductor.
 
 Clear Lucite paperweight contains an actual NAS AS/6100 white ceramic processor with heatsink.

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National AS/6100 Microprocessor
National Advanced Systems AS/6100 Logic chip
image fo a Motorola / National Advanced Systems NAS AS/6100 processor cpu
National NAS AS/6100 Logic chip
National Semiconductor chip
The AS/6100 VLSI Logic Chip Close-up
National AS/6100 Computer
National Advanced Systems AS/6100 Computer (1982)
 
National Semiconductor Air-cooled Logic chip
Side view of the NAS AS/6100 Air-cooled Logic chip
national semiconductor microprocessor
National Semiconductor 16000 series Microprocessor family chips in Lucite paperweight (1982)


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