28 Feb
2002
28 Feb
'02
4:34 a.m.
From New York Times
A Long Time Ago, in a Lab Far Away . . .
The Stewart Brand-penned article for Rolling Stone
may be found at:
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html
-dq
1 Mar
1 Mar
9:48 p.m.
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"For S-100 bus. In new condition (never used). Contains a 6800
microprocessor (shades of the old Apple!). There were not very many of these
sold. The concept was to have both a 8080 CPU board and a 6800 (presumably
much more powerful) in the same computer, both using the same address lines
and clock. Switching between the two was done through a software call. "
Say what? Apple? 6800? "much more powerful"? On my planet, history went
a little differently. The Allies won WWII, Nixon was president, Apples had
6502s, and by the time this card was manufactured, the 8080 had a good deal
more throughput.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2006340966
--John
2 Mar
2 Mar
4:20 a.m.
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John Chris Wren wrote:
Say what? Apple? 6800? "much more
powerful"? On my planet, history went
a little differently. The Allies won WWII, Nixon was president, Apples had
6502s, and by the time this card was manufactured, the 8080 had a good deal
more throughput.
Now if they came out with a real 12/24 bit cpu chip in late 1970's that
would have been power.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
5:16 a.m.
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What about the 6100?
Ben Franchuk wrote:
John Chris Wren wrote:
Say what? Apple? 6800? "much more
powerful"? On my planet, history went
a little differently. The Allies won WWII, Nixon was president, Apples had
6502s, and by the time this card was manufactured, the 8080 had a good deal
more throughput.
Now if they came out with a real 12/24 bit cpu chip in late 1970's that
would have been power.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html 
6:15 a.m.
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11:47 a.m.
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on 3/2/02 2:15 PM, Tony Duell at ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Actually, didn't the Apple 1 have the PCB layed
out to use either a 6800
or a 6502 (2 40 pin DIL positions). You'd have to change the firmware too
of course. but I thought I read that the 6502 was the lower cost option
that everybody actaully used (for suitably small values of 'everybody')
but a 6800 was possible too.
I noticed on some TV show that showed the Apple I board close up, a socket
with a "6800" label next to it. Thought it was interesting, but didn't give
it much thought beyond that.
--
Owen Robertson
2:39 p.m.
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Owen Robertson wrote:
on 3/2/02 2:15 PM, Tony Duell at ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Well the 6501? 6500? had to change to the 6502 because the earlier
chip
copied the bus and timing and pin layout of the 6800, and got into
trouble
over that.
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
Actually, didn't the Apple 1 have the PCB
layed out to use either a 6800
or a 6502 (2 40 pin DIL positions). You'd have to change the firmware too
of course. but I thought I read that the 6502 was the lower cost option
that everybody actaully used (for suitably small values of 'everybody')
but a 6800 was possible too.
I noticed on some TV show that showed the Apple I board close up, a socket
with a "6800" label next to it. Thought it was interesting, but didn't
give
it much thought beyond that.
--
Owen Robertson 
9:29 a.m.
New subject: More eBay fun
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, John Chris Wren wrote:
"For S-100 bus. In new condition (never used).
Contains a 6800
microprocessor (shades of the old Apple!). There were not very many of these
sold. The concept was to have both a 8080 CPU board and a 6800 (presumably
much more powerful) in the same computer, both using the same address lines
and clock. Switching between the two was done through a software call. "
Say what? Apple? 6800? "much more powerful"? On my planet, history went
a little differently. The Allies won WWII, Nixon was president, Apples had
6502s, and by the time this card was manufactured, the 8080 had a good deal
more throughput.
Well, technically, the Apple-1 could be jumpered to use a 6800 instead of
a 6502.
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