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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
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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