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From: drew@sdeggo.UUCP (Drew Dean)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs (also kind of long)
Summary: No, the 6809's older....
Message-ID: <235@sdeggo.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 00:01:53 GMT
References: <1238@flatline.UUCP> <3247@edm.UUCP>
Organization: Lazy Programmer's Society of San Diego
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In article <3247@edm.UUCP>, rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel) writes:
> From article <1238@flatline.UUCP>, by erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend):
> As far as I know, the Apple was out for a LONG time before the 6809 came out.
> I assume you're talking about the 6800 series in general. I think that the
> COCO was one of the first machines to come out with a 6809 in it, and that was 
> some time 'round 82-83.
> -- 
As an early Coco owner, I wish to point out that I bought my machine in Oct.
1981 with 32K RAM, using some of the earliest 64K DRAM's I've ever seen.  RS
used ceramic RAMS in a home computer, probably for the first and last time
in history.  Oh yeah, the Coco had been out a year when I bought it, so it
was released in Sept. 1980, and mine has serial number 4057.  It worked
great for six years, until I retired last fall for my Mac SE.....
(I still have sitting around, because I paid $700 for it, and now it's worth
< $50.  Too much sentimental value....)
Also, the Coco wasn't the first 6809, although it's the only one that ever
became popular, that honor rests with Gimix or SWTPC (or some other old
company) on the SS-50 bus.  (I don't know exactly who, because I was 9 years
old at the time (1979), and didn't care a hoot about computers).

Drew Dean
drew@sdeggo.UUCP
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