>the Motorola 6800 series of cpu came out in the 80's i think. i had a real
>job as a EE. i used the 6800 in a Masscomp SuperM icro and in HP 7000 Risc
>systems i think. its been a while. in beilieve the Fortune computers used
>the 6800 also. all were UNIX machine of course. about that same time PCs
>were breaking into industry also. i remember 286 8khz to 386 50khz PCs
>also.
The oldest book, on 6800's, I can find in my library is "6800
Programming For Logic Design" printed in 1977. So I suspect the 6800
was around in the late 70's.
It's a little hazy now, but I think I built my first computer in
1976, using a 6800.
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