Timeline for IBM PC 5150 motherboard labelling
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| Dec 30, 2019 at 20:24 | comment | added | Single Malt | Right, that makes sense, I understand now. It is the combination of the 8284 and the crystal that can be used to produce the square wave. | |
| Dec 30, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | StarCat | @Single Malt, The crystal is not an oscillator because it needs some external components (usually a number of capacitors and an inverter or, in this case the 8284) to generate a square wave. There are self-contained crystal oscillators available as a single package that contains all the needed components to produce a square wave directly. | |
| Dec 30, 2019 at 14:41 | comment | added | Single Malt | The component labelled Y1 is as you describe, and it tallies with what Whit3rd commented. Why is the crystal not an oscillator? | |
| Dec 29, 2019 at 22:13 | history | edited | StarCat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2019 at 22:08 | history | answered | StarCat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |