[Coco] TRS-80 Color Computer: Wikipedia Article

[Frank Swygert]

Wouldn't you know it, just after sending that last message I stumbled 
across this:

"Apple designer Steve Wozniak described it as the first chip you could 
get for less than a hundred dollars (actually a quarter of the 6800 
price) - it became the CPU of choice for many early home computers (8 
bit Commodore and Atari products)."  From 
http://library.thinkquest.org/26532/inside/history/index.html

While it's referring to the 6800, I think we can infer that the 6809 
would likewise be at least similar in price to the 6800, especially 
since it was a more advanced design while the 6502 was a few years old 
when the 6809 came out.

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Frank Swygert
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