[Coco] 68B09E alive and well...

[Paulo Lindoso]

Hello All,

Greetings from a Coco enthusiast from Brazil.  I dug up my Coco3, found out
it was perfectly functional with an FD502 disk drive.

I am now digging up info as how to connect to my MACBOOK and get it back
alive and well!  If anybody can provide me quick pointers, I would
appreciate it.  I would also like to know whether there is a MacMESS
tutorial for the Coco3 available somewhere...

As for the CPU manufacturing, I know Freescale bought Motorola's CPU/MPU
division and still manufactures the HC08 and HC11 microcontrollers, which
are essentially the evolution of 6800 series.  I did look up for the 6809,
but couldn't find anything.

Cheers,
Paulo.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Mike Craig <mdcmike at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Rogelio Perea <os9dude at ...> writes:
>
> >
> > ... at Jameco ->
> >
> http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10001_10001_320590_-1
> >
> > Just in case anyone needs a spare or two. Have seen a bloke on Ebay
> selling
> > them for about $25.00
> >
>
>
> They have some fair prices. I love Jameco. :-)
>
> On the subject of old microprocessors.... One thing I found rather
> interesting
> the other day was replacements for the MOS 6502 are still being
> manufactured by
> a company called "Western Design Center". They are still used in many
> applications today such as automotive and medical. Check it out --->
> http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/about_us.cfm
>
> I didn't know the old chips were still being utilized. Does anyone know of
> a
> company still producing the 6800 series and where they might still be used?
>
>
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