[Coco] OS9 68K

[Dave Philipsen]

Exactly.  I bought my PT68K-4 as just a  motherboard without memory.  
Added the memory, HD, FD, VGA card, and a few connectors for serial 
ports, put it in a computer case with a supply, and I had a nice little 
68k box.

Dave


On 3/9/2017 5:56 AM, Francis Swygert wrote:
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 05:06:22 +0000
> From: James Ross <jrosslist at outlook.com>
>
> David Linsley said:
>> I remember conversing with the purveyor of the WCP306 back in the day too.
>> Found a reference here:
>> http://www.verycomputer.com/10_bf7cd3fd15b0878f_1.htm
> Ahh... so there were two different OS-9 68k boxes that could use PC peripherals. The WCP306 & PT68K-4.
>
> Actually now that I think about it, I did read about the WCP306 once, on the CoCo Wiki page -- it says it was originally going to be the MM/1B, successor to the MM/1 (even though it had a completely different design!).  The PT68K-4 is described on the CoCo Wiki page as well.
>
> I am thinking that very few of these were ever made/sold.
>
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> I think it was Delmar Systems that sold the PT68K as a turn-key OS-9 (68K) machine.
> The PT68K started as a build it yourself computer in one of the electronics/radio magazines back in the 80s. Don't know how many kits or fully populated boards they sold, but it was a hobbyist machines following the pattern of the early computers, like the Altair -- where you could buy a kit or completed board, or a bare board and find your own parts.
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