Just to let you guys know, there were much larger 6809 systems. The 6809
was a great processor.
I worked for many years on a 6809 system with 4Mb ram, scsi disk interface
with hard drive and ms-dos 3.5 floppy, 68030 floating point co-processor.
This was in use from about 1980 until 1992, when superceeded by the new
system.
The 6809 was retained for so long due to the software investment.
Originally it had a custom disk interface to 5.25 floppy only, which was
upgraded to scsi and ms-dos fat file format around 1988. It also originally
had a smaller stack based floating point chip, but we needed faster float
speed for coordinate calculations. So we upgraded to using the floating
point co-processor that was used with the 68030. All of this and the
memory managment was custom hardware. It started out being a couple of
boards, but later was reduced to one board for all the cpu stuff.
These systems also had several other 6809's in them. Originally the pattern
rec vision system used one also. The material handling system, and motion
control axis used the smaller 6805s in them.
It was used on the Kulicke & Soffa wire bonders, used to manufacture
computer chips, including Motorola of course.
http://www.kns.com/prodserv/equipment/8060.asp
Chad Martin
I picked up two of these yesterday. I THINK they may be 80 TPI DD drives
but I cant the spcs anywhere. Does anyone have the specs and/or the DIP
switch settings for them? For some reason all the specs that I can find
only go back to the model 221.
Joe
I've 8 total, with backup data on them, but have no drive to read the disks.
In good shape with their cardboard slipcovers. $1.17 each plus whatever it
costs to ship. Prefer to sell the entire lot rather than individually.
>That extension would most likely be ClarisWorks on a MAC
Mac's don't use 3 letter extensions (well, not ClarisWorks era Macs at
least)... but you are right, it is ClarisWorks... just for Windows (yes,
amazingly, Apple wrote and sold Windows software)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>He's gone now, and so is the computer the files were typed on, and I
>don't even know if it was CP/M, Mac, PC or what. They have extentions of
>"CWK" and simple 8-char filenames. I know that's CP/M or DOS like, but
>they may be exports.
CWK was used by Claris Works on windows
I can open and translate those to another program if you would like (MS
Word perhaps?). I may also have an old copy of Claris Works for windows I
can send you if you'd like to try to work on them directly (probably Win
3.x, maybe Win 95)
I just tested your test file and was successful in translating it to MS
Word.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
My brother interviewed two women who drove across the U.S. by themselves
back in 1920-something (a substantial feat, if you know anything about
U.S. culture then or 1920's roads and automobiles), published a little
500-copy book of it. It's long since disappeared, and never got the
attention it deserved. I want to put it on the web.
He's gone now, and so is the computer the files were typed on, and I
don't even know if it was CP/M, Mac, PC or what. They have extentions of
"CWK" and simple 8-char filenames. I know that's CP/M or DOS like, but
they may be exports.
I want to convert them to something "portable" (sic) and eventually
HTML. Luckily the images are all TIFFs, and load with GIMP with
ignorable errors. There's 41 MB of CWK files, about 40 of them.
Any suggestions? A sample file is at http://wps.com/temp/A01.CWK
List relevancy: they are > 10 years old and produced on a computer.
In Nov of 2002 you asked about a TI-1500. I have a need to
inspect one, and I'm wondering if you were able to find
anyone with an operational system.
Larry Miller
The Aerospace Corporation
310-336-5597
