1 May
2012
1 May
'12
10:38 a.m.
No software for a 6809??? What about FLEX and UniFLEX from TSC for an OS and Stylograph
for a word processor not to mention Dynacalc for a spreadsheed and numerous BASIC's,
editors, assemblers, disassemblers, diagnostic tools, etc.
I still have a 6809 system which runs FLEX with both Stylograph and Dynacalc and many
other things running with two 8 inch and two 5 1/4 inch floppies just fine...
73, Chris Hausler
Home computing
never took off until the software industry exploded.
There are tons of computer models like the ADAM and my Timex 2068 that
never went anywhere because there was little software available for the
masses. Plenty of people had computers before the 80's, they just tended
to write their own software as needed.
I tend to think the lack of floppy disk with a real OS , killed the 8
bitters
out there. I was just looking at some old mags from the 80's,PC DOS and
CP/M was it for general purpose OS's. I wanted to get a 6809 machine
back then, but I could not find software to with the hardware.
Ben.