Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3075 comp.arch:6041 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!chasm From: chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long) Summary: 6809 as a peripheral processor Message-ID: <5163@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 11 Aug 88 05:01:40 GMT References: <1238@flatline.UUCP> <3247@edm.UUCP> <720@mcrware.UUCP> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 26 In article <720@mcrware.UUCP>, jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes: > In article <3247@edm.UUCP>, rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes: > > I think that the > > COCO was one of the first machines to come out with a 6809 in it, and that was > > some time 'round 82-83. > > I recall seeing one of the very early 4K CoCo 1s back when I lived in Lisle IL > in the summer of 1981. > The designers of the 6809 had a three-part article in Jan-Mar 1979 BYTE (the > first and damned near the last time that BYTE ever mentioned the 6809, by the > way); the first 6809 machines were probably put out by SWTP (Southwest Tech- > nical Products), SSB (Smoke Signal Broadcasting), and Gimix (now GMX)--there > was also an outfit called Percom that had a 6809 board way back when. > James Jones Actually, in addition to the SS-50 computer built out of a 6809, Percom also sold a disk subsystem for Atari computers (6502 based boxes) that had a 6809 in it -- we did programmed I/O at 500 Mbit (8 inch floppy dat rate) with a 2 MHz chip! The circuit itself was really cheap, too. Charles Marslett STB Systems, Inc. chasm@killer.dallas.tx.us