[Coco] Somewhat OT - SWTPC 6809 Restoration Project

[Joel Ewy]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 06:51:13PM -0500, Joel Ewy wrote:
>   
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I have on loan the remains of two or three SWTPc 6809 computers that had  
>> belonged to the late friend of a friend, and I'm going to try to restore  
>> them to working condition.  (I can probably only get one working, since  
>> there only seems to be one CPU board, unless another one turns up in  
>> other boxes...)  My plan is to try to get Flex and OS-9 running, and  
>> maybe get it to run some old text adventures and such things.  If I get  
>> real ambitious I might hook up one of those serial<->ethernet/telnet  
>> thingies and make it play adventure games over the Internet.  First  
>> things first though.  I'm cataloging the parts and trying to understand  
>> the DAT circuit on the CPU board.
>>
>> If you have an interest in such arcana, you can check out my progress  
>> here:  http://8littlebits.wordpress.com/category/swtpc/
>>
>> JCE
>>     
>
> Just for the record, in my book this is almost completely _on_ topic,
> especially if/when you get it running OS-9 (or even Flex)...
>
> John
>   
Ok, very slightly OT.  :-)

JCE