On Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 08:53 PM, Robert Poland wrote:
>>> Did 6800's exist btw? I do tech support for state schools, and some
>>> have
>>> referred to them often enough for me to wonder if some special
>>> educational version existed, however they've all been replaced and
>>> seem
>>> to only exist in memory now - been meaning to ask that, and thought
>>> you,
>>> pickle, may have an idea there if anyone would :D
>
> 6800, 6801, 6802 and 6809 DID exist. I built a kit computer (SWTP) in
> the late 70;s that used 6800 and later the 6809. It came out around
> the time the Apple I was released. When I sold it, it had over 700K
> of ram.
>
> The 6800 family was made by Motorola. We (Engineering Measurements
> Co.) sold thousands of traffic controllers using them.
>
> Clock speed was in the range of 1 to 2 Mhz.
I had heard of 6800's as in processors (but only vaguely, and in
passing) but was more curious about the Powermac 6800/180's
Seems tho, that they may be just elusive little things :D
dana (68070) banana
:D
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