[Coco] Tandy Electronics??!!

[Dave G4UGM]

I think the Dragons were quite popular in the UK. They pop up pretty often on E-Bay UK, and I own one along with a CoCo II both of which I bought on E-Bay and an Atari STE I have owned from new.  

My first 6809 was a NewBear 6809 system on a single card. I can't find any reference to it on the web and I gave mine away a long time ago so no pictures.  it used the same BUS and form factor as the 7768 . 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbear_77-68

I think after that for a while I had a Fortronic 6809 system like this:-

http://nosher.net/archives/computers/prac_comp_1981-03_026

I didn't pay anything for it though. Apparently the one I had was produced for a Post Office counter automation project, and I got it as the project was cancelled. I had it for about three years until it was "recovered" by Fortronic as the Post Office wanted to restart the project, new 6809's were longer available and the needed every one they could find while the re-wrote the software for a current micro.... 

After that I had an Acorn Computers 6809 Eurocard system. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Eurocard_systems

not sure how many were made, but not many.....

Dave
G4UGM

> -----Original Message-----
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> Does anyone have a sense of how popular some of the other 6809 systems
> were, like the Thomson machines in France?
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> From: Aaron Wolfe
> Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎January‎ ‎1‎, ‎2015 ‎4‎:‎39‎ ‎PM
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> On Jan 1, 2015 7:24 PM, "Nick Marentes" <nickma2 at optusnet.com.au>
> wrote:
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> >
> > I wonder if we could do a system count of computers in hobby use from
> > the
> 80's and what the percentages are here, where would the CoCo sit?
> >
> 
> Retro stuff is a lot more diverse than modern desktop operating systems, but
> I think you're right that the coco would not be ranked highly as a popular
> retro platform.  If you expanded to all 6809 based systems you could pick up
> a few more (vectrex has a following) but those are basically the "other" of an
> "other".
> 
> Ive only been to 2 retrocomputing events, but at both I went with the only
> folks who demoed coco gear.  Commodore 64/128/Vic 20 stuff is probably
> the biggest group with Apple II stuff coming next.  Then you have the amigas
> and atari's, then some trs80 model i/iii, maybe a few CPM machines, and
> *then* the cocos if I had to guess.  Of course coco are the best machines in
> all cases.
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