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Peak

During the early 80's the 6809 was a major player in the embedded processor 
market. Lot of pinball machines were based off this product. Mototora was late in 
trying to introduce a computer based on the 6809 and it never was released. Based 
on the 6809 with  

6845 VDC, 
NEC765 FDC, 
the 68488 GPIB contropller chip, 
6844 DMA controller, 
32K of video ram and 
up to 128K of program ram
two serial ports 
one parallel port for printer
built in monitor (B&W)

Would run TCS Flex09 which I have on 8 inch floopies
OS9 Level 1
Basic09 compiler. 

One big mainboard computer about 8.5 in by 14 inch Probably to replace the old 
6809 Exercisor system. I remember those well. Back up your 8 inch floopies daily. 
The origianal Remec(?) drives just on occasion would like to eat floppies for a 
snack. Especially when power glitched. I saw a person's whole days work destroyed 
while saving to disks in the middle of a power glitch. Never a pretty sight to see a 
grown person cry. Oh the good ole days before uninterruptable power supplies. 

james


james



On 15 Dec 2003 at 14:33, peak at mail.polarcomm.com wrote:

> Mike,
> As a Technician for different companies I have also seen 
> 6809's,6803's and support chips in other equipment. 
> Pinball,video games,terminals,printers, you name it.
> Eric
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