[GreenKeys] SWTPC 6800

[Chris Elmquist]

On Thursday (07/21/2022 at 02:00PM -0400), Tom Hunter wrote:
> The SWTPC was my favorite computer. I had several - all gone now.
> 
> Somewhere I have a photo of 8 model 33's connected to a 6800 running
> timesharing which I wrote in machine language. I was demonstrating it at
> the Pittsburgh Area Computer Club, probably in the 70's or 80's.
> 
> If I can find that photo, I will post it.
> 
> I could write small programs in machine language right out of my head in
> those days. 6800 language was easy.
> 
> I also had a rack mounted 6800 on a modem. I received RTTY off the air from
> a repeater that was active back then, converted it to ASCII and dumped it
> into a circular buffer so anyone could read the last  thousand or so
> characters that had been transmitted.

Cool.

I too programmed the 6800 directly in machine code from memory (to
memory? LOL) especially with the MEK6800-D1 board.  Then I learned what
you could do with an assembler... and then a macro assembler... and
didn't really look back until debugging time.

Chris NØJCF

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Chris Elmquist