seeking Motorola M68MM01A2 documentation

[Chris Elmquist]

On Tuesday (01/18/2022 at 11:35PM +0000), Jonathan Chapman wrote:
> How's about a Glitchbus board set that's compatible? I was planning on doing it anyway.

That would be very cool.  Something along those lines was my plan B and
I even dug out a tube of 6802's for the effort.  I think I could wire
up a prototype over a weekend.  MC6802 is a nice "cheat" as you don't
have to mess with the two-phase clock stuff.

What would be really slick is an SBC that has everything on it to be
either an Altair 680 or an SWTPC 6800 just by changing some jumpers,
switches, etc. and putting the correct ROM monitor on the board.

If there was a PROM, a 32K SRAM, an ACIA and a bonus PIA socket, along
with a small amount of glue logic, I think we could run the ROM monitor
for either system and a bunch of legacy code in 32K of RAM-- which would
have been a big system in the day.  The PIA would provide a fun GPIO
capability just for toggling bits to and from the real world.

The ACIA was the serial console device on the Altair and the later
MP-S on the SWTPC and so you would run SWTBUG on the SWTPC personality
to use that.  I don't see a need for MIKBUG compatibility here, since
that requires the bit-banged console via another PIA and odd external
timer chip.  Baud rate generator that can do 16x for 110, 300, 1200 and
9600 would be ideal.  I'd want 110 for a real Teletype, 300 for Kansas
City Standard tapes, 1200 for a DecWriter and 9600 so that I don't fall
asleep ;-)

When can I order one!  :-)

Thanks Jonathan,

Chris
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Chris Elmquist