The answer is #1.

I am a self-taught electronics hobbyist with a cargo van full of old computer parts, fax machines, printers, etc.

So I therefore have LCDs, buffers, shift registers, latches, MCS-51 and MCS-48 microcomputers,
a few uPD7810's, several 1-mbit flash ROMs, the list goes on.
The very newest would be at least ten years old.

I am seventeen, and am using the old chips to learn on.
I haven't actually built a system yet, but I have a pretty good idea about what to build.
I have thoroughly read Jan Axelson's Microcontroller Idea Book, and understand everything in it.

The reason I was asking about the 8755 was because I have five of these, and was trying to use what I already have.

-Nathan