On Fri, 4 May 2001 18:48:40 +0100 (BST) Tony Duell
<ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Didn't some of the early
Japanese home computers have 6809-like CPUs in them?
Yes, they did. According to Byte magazine, May 1982, the
Canon CX-1 had a 6809, and so did the Hitachi MB-6890. The
Fujitsu FM-8 had two 6809s and a 4-bit 8841, whatever that
is.
Wasn't there an SWTPC machine with a 6809 in it? And I
seem to recall a rather odd thing called the "Positron"
that had a 6809, Prestel/Teletext graphics and an MMU for
multi-tasking.
And it turns up in embedded control systems -- a PLC
that I fell over in my workshop today (seriously) has a 6809 CPU on the
mainboard.
My Stag EPROM programmer has one, too. But my Tektronix
833 Data Comms Tester has a 6800.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England