[Paladin2]

The Ford EEC or Electronic Engine Control is a series of ECU (or Engine Control Unit) that was designed and built by Ford Motor Company. They were introduced in 1978 and went through several model iterations.

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EEC I and II Edit

These two “modules” used a common processor and memory so they can be described together. The processor was a 12 bit unit manufactured by Toshiba. The Ford internal code name for it was “PM-11” or “Poor Man’s 11” implying it was a stripped down version of the, then popular, Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 computer. A PDP-11 was used in a vehicle in the first half of the 1970s for “proof of concept”. In reality there was very little in common between these two computer architectures. This chip was never commercially available.

[zeugma]

The Ford internal code name for it was “PM-11” or “Poor Man’s 11” implying it was a stripped down version of the, then popular, Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 computer.

now, that was interesting. It's one of the reasons I like threads like this. All kinds of interesting nibblets of information out there amongst Freepers!