[Coco] Somewhat OT - SWTPC 6809 Restoration Project

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 April 2009, Joel Ewy wrote:
>John W. Linville wrote:
>> 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
>
>Ok, very slightly OT.  :-)
>
>JCE

Not a bit Joel, I'm waiting for the next chapter right now!

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