[Coco] Somewhat OT - SWTPC 6809 Restoration Project

[John W. Linville]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 06:51:13PM -0500, Joel Ewy wrote:

> Hey all,

>

> I have on loan the remains of two or three SWTPc 6809 computers that had  

> belonged to the late friend of a friend, and I'm going to try to restore  

> them to working condition.  (I can probably only get one working, since  

> there only seems to be one CPU board, unless another one turns up in  

> other boxes...)  My plan is to try to get Flex and OS-9 running, and  

> maybe get it to run some old text adventures and such things.  If I get  

> real ambitious I might hook up one of those serial<->ethernet/telnet  

> thingies and make it play adventure games over the Internet.  First  

> things first though.  I'm cataloging the parts and trying to understand  

> the DAT circuit on the CPU board.

>

> If you have an interest in such arcana, you can check out my progress  

> here:  http://8littlebits.wordpress.com/category/swtpc/

>

> JCE


Just for the record, in my book this is almost completely _on_ topic,
especially if/when you get it running OS-9 (or even Flex)...

John
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