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    The SWTPC 6800 Computer System, simply referred to as SWTPC 6800, is an early microcomputer developed by the Southwest Technical Products Corporation and...
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    officially announced their SWTPC 6800 Computer System in November 1975. Wayne Green visited SWTPC in August 1975 and described the SWTPC computer kit complete...
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    SWTPC 6800 Microcomputer System (November 1975) SWTPC 6800 Microcomputer System (November 1975) SWTPC 6800 Microcomputer System (November 1975) SWTPC...
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    an early computer bus designed as a part of the SWTPC 6800 Computer System that used the Motorola 6800 CPU. The SS-50 motherboard would have around seven...
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    front intake fans. Enthusiast case featuring translucent panel casemod SWTPC 6800 case with SS-50 and SS-30 buses—an early hobbyist machine Three of the...
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    User's Manual FLEX 9.0 User’s Manual FLEX User Group FLEX User Group SWTPC 6800 FLEX 2 and 6809 FLEX 9 / UniFLEX / OS9 Level 1 emulator Windows-based...
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    Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) produced the 8-bit SWTPC 6800 and later the 16-bit SWTPC 6809 kits that employed the Motorola 68xx series...
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  • reputation by offering expansions for the Southwest Technical Products (SWTPC) 6800 microcomputer. It later manufactured its own line of computers, called...
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    system for the SWTPC 6800 proved a hot-seller for Midwest in 1976, the company began products for general-purpose computers like the SWTPC. In 1977, they...
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  • SIMH (section SWTPC)
    Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 versions Nord-100 LGP-30 LGP-21 Sage II SDS 940 SWTPC 6800 SEL-32 both Concept-32 and PowerNode systems Sigma "Preserving Computing's...
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    had been built around the 6800 also had options for the 6809 or switched to it exclusively. Examples include machines from SWTPC, Gimix, Smoke Signal Broadcasting...
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  • Uiterwyk wrote MICRO BASIC 1.3 for the SWTPC 6800 system), which SWTPC published in the June 1976 issue of the SWTPC newsletter. Uiterwyk had handwritten...
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  • Comp-Sultants Micro 440 Intel 4040 1975 First 4040-based micro SWTPC 6800 Motorola 6800 1975 Introduced SS-50 bus COSMAC ELF RCA 1802 1976 Apple I MOS...
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    with 16 K of RAM for $685 you would get BASIC for free., Michael Holley's SWTPC Collection Home Page Allen, Paul (2011). Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder...
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    published in Radio-Electronics magazine, the Altair 8800 (1975), the SWTPC 6800 (1975), the COSMAC ELF (1976) in Popular Electronics magazine, the Newbear...
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  • rated speed. He suggested a more typical 6800-based machine would be slightly faster than the 8080. However, the 6800 once again put in a poor showing even...
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    A Hazeltine 1500 being used as the primary interface to a SWTPC 6800 microcomputer....
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  • Processor Technology SAMDOS, original DOS for the SAM Coupé SDOS, for the SWTPC 6800 from the Southwest Technical Products Corporation Sinclair QDOS, for the...
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    design a computer based on the Motorola 6800 design kit. The first deliveries were in November 1975. In June 1976 SWTPC introduced the AC-30 Cassette Interface...
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  • Initially, in the days of the SS-50 bus and SS-50C bus systems such as SWTPC, Gimix, and Smoke Signal Broadcasting, OS-9 was used more as a general purpose...
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  • Motorola 6800 based microcomputer from scratch, designing and etching the printed circuit boards personally and then purchased and built a kit SWTPC 6800 computer...
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  • Products Corporation (SWTPC)'s 6800 microcomputer. Named the System 68, Gimix's computer featured an SS-50-bus motherboard (like the SWTPC), with fifteen 50-pin...
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  • version of Grendel's Cave in 1981 as a single-player video game for the SWTPC 6800 microcomputer. This version was a fully text-based game but included many...
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    Motorola 68000 (section 6800)
    Helix Systems (in Missouri, United States) designed an extension to the SWTPC SS-50 bus, the SS-64, and produced systems built around the 68008 processor...
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    Motorola MEK D1 6800 board Processor Tech Sol-20 Terminal Computer Processor Tech CUTS S-100 bus Tape I/O interface board SWTPC's Motorola 6800-based computers...
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  • Daniel Meyer of SWTPC enlisted Ed Colle, an engineer who had worked at Datapoint on terminal design, to design the new TV Typewriter. The SWTPC CT-1024 Terminal...
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    any portable cassette player to be connected to the Motorola 6800-based micros from SWTPC. The CIS-30 was a success, and soon followed by similar devices...
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    Electronics Simon (computer), a relay computer (demonstrator) from 1950 SWTPC TV Typewriter Survey of 150 computers, Computing Now, September 1984 pp...
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    machine code, using octal. Robert Uiterwyk handwrote MICRO BASIC for the SWTPC (a 6800 system) on a legal pad. Steve Wozniak wrote the code to Integer BASIC...
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  • Southwest Technical Products (SWTPC), who arranged for Robert Uiterwyk to provide his 4K BASIC interpreter program for the Motorola 6800 in KCS format. Several...
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