I have just pulled out my PEP Modular computer with a 68K KA. I think it has 1M of RAM and possibly 13 serial ports (9, 15 and 25 pin ports). I think this also has a parallel port of two but isn't broken out. I haven't tried to start it yet. I need to remove the drives, let them warm up and see if they work. There is one floppy which I think is a 800K drive and two hard drives. I'll boot the machine and see if I can get into the ROM monitor. A quick check of ebay reveals this thing cost only slightly less than it did when it was new. ;-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 2/5/21 8:00 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have just pulled out my PEP Modular computer with a 68K KA. I think it has 1M of RAM and possibly 13 serial ports (9, 15 and 25 pin ports). I think this also has a parallel port of two but isn't broken out. I haven't tried to start it yet. I need to remove the drives, let them warm up and see if they work. There is one floppy which I think is a 800K drive and two hard drives. I'll boot the machine and see if I can get into the ROM monitor.
I had to look that one up. That looks like really nice hardware! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On 2/6/21 5:08 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 2/5/21 8:00 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have just pulled out my PEP Modular computer with a 68K KA. I think it has 1M of RAM and possibly 13 serial ports (9, 15 and 25 pin ports). I think this also has a parallel port of two but isn't broken out. I haven't tried to start it yet. I need to remove the drives, let them warm up and see if they work. There is one floppy which I think is a 800K drive and two hard drives. I'll boot the machine and see if I can get into the ROM monitor.
I had to look that one up. That looks like really nice hardware!
-Dave
Somewhere around here I think I have a prototype board but I have no idea where it is. I pulled some of the card and it has a 8Mhz 68K with 16K of RAM. I am looking for the manuals but I have doubts on that. It definitely has 1M of ram. The CIM-2 has 2 6850's and 2 6821 (header is there but no cable). The 2 hard drives in it are ST506 interface. There are 2 backplanes, one is triple row (male on the card, female on the backplane). The other is 2 row (male on the card, female on the backplane) and connected to the triple via an I/O board. I can't recall if one is a VME bus, or Euro Bus or STE Bus. I definitely want this up and running as it's a good example of an industrial micro- computer before the IBM PC became popular. I know it runs OS9 as that's what I had on it and the ROMs also say so. :-) Microware's OS-9 for the 68K became OSK which later became OSK. Microware OS-9 still exists and supports a large number of processors including the one for the Raspberry Pi. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 2/6/21 5:52 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
Somewhere around here I think I have a prototype board but I have no idea where it is. I pulled some of the card and it has a 8Mhz 68K with 16K of RAM. I am looking for the manuals but I have doubts on that. It definitely has 1M of ram. The CIM-2 has 2 6850's and 2 6821 (header is there but no cable). The 2 hard drives in it are ST506 interface.
There are 2 backplanes, one is triple row (male on the card, female on the backplane). The other is 2 row (male on the card, female on the backplane) and connected to the triple via an I/O board. I can't recall if one is a VME bus, or Euro Bus or STE Bus.
I definitely want this up and running as it's a good example of an industrial micro- computer before the IBM PC became popular. I know it runs OS9 as that's what I had on it and the ROMs also say so. :-) Microware's OS-9 for the 68K became OSK which later became OSK. Microware OS-9 still exists and supports a large number of processors including the one for the Raspberry Pi.
Yup, definitely very interesting hardware. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that stuff. I have no experience with OS-9, but have taken an interest in it over the past few months. I'm slowly putting together a 6809-based system to run it on. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On 2/9/21 2:30 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 2/6/21 5:52 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
I definitely want this up and running as it's a good example of an industrial micro- computer before the IBM PC became popular. I know it runs OS9 as that's what I had on it and the ROMs also say so. :-) Microware's OS-9 for the 68K became OSK which later became OSK. Microware OS-9 still exists and supports a large number of processors including the one for the Raspberry Pi.
Yup, definitely very interesting hardware. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that stuff.
I have no experience with OS-9, but have taken an interest in it over the past few months. I'm slowly putting together a 6809-based system to run it on.
Please share what you build. Microware's OS-9 was a very interesting OS. Also Nitros9 Level I & II is available for the 6809 (CoCo, ST2900, SWTPC). Level I OS-9 (for the 6809, multi-user, multi-process, all sharing 64k) Level II OS-9 (for the 6809, multi-user, multi-process. each process could have up to 64k, w/MMU) OS-9 (for the 68k, multi-user/tasking, written in assembly) OSK (for the 68K, multi-user/tasking, written in C) OS-9000 (different processors 68K, x86, etc.) Modern OS9 (different processors 68K, x86, etc.), Still being sold and supported. They're working on a Raspberry Pi version now. There was an RTX or RTS for the 6800. I've not seen this and only found out about it in the last year. BTW< I think we lost Peter Stark's Star-K stuff. I think I have the HUMBUG source for the 6801, 6809 and 68K. I wish I had grabbed the rest when I had a chance. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 2/9/21 8:48 AM, Neil Cherry wrote:
I have no experience with OS-9, but have taken an interest in it over the past few months. I'm slowly putting together a 6809-based system to run it on.
Please share what you build. Microware's OS-9 was a very interesting OS. Also Nitros9 Level I & II is available for the 6809 (CoCo, ST2900, SWTPC).
With some kind assistance from Bob Applegate, I now have OS/9 Level I (the NitrOS9 distribution) up and running on an all-new-hardware (Corsham Tech) SS-50 6809 system. Some of the material has not yet been released, and Bob is still digging for some of the details and sources, but it boots and runs.
BTW< I think we lost Peter Stark's Star-K stuff. I think I have the HUMBUG source for the 6801, 6809 and 68K. I wish I had grabbed the rest when I had a chance.
I'd love a copy of those HUMBUG sources, if you don't mind. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On 3/5/21 11:43 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 2/9/21 8:48 AM, Neil Cherry wrote:
I have no experience with OS-9, but have taken an interest in it over the past few months. I'm slowly putting together a 6809-based system to run it on.
Please share what you build. Microware's OS-9 was a very interesting OS. Also Nitros9 Level I & II is available for the 6809 (CoCo, ST2900, SWTPC).
With some kind assistance from Bob Applegate, I now have OS/9 Level I (the NitrOS9 distribution) up and running on an all-new-hardware (Corsham Tech) SS-50 6809 system. Some of the material has not yet been released, and Bob is still digging for some of the details and sources, but it boots and runs.
Recently picked up a blank PT69-5 (6809) from Fred (Peripheral Technologies). Looking forward to building that. Fred is working on the same, OS/9, drivewire, Flex, Uniflex, etc. Would love to see all these systems running these OSs. :-) We live in interesting times, both good and bad.
BTW< I think we lost Peter Stark's Star-K stuff. I think I have the HUMBUG source for the 6801, 6809 and 68K. I wish I had grabbed the rest when I had a chance.
I'd love a copy of those HUMBUG sources, if you don't mind.
Dave, I'll need to dig those up. Might take me a while as I'm working on taking 40+ hours worth of classes. So you may need to bounce a brick off my head if I forget (... I'm good at subtle...). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 3/5/21 11:43 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 2/9/21 8:48 AM, Neil Cherry wrote:
I have no experience with OS-9, but have taken an interest in it over the past few months. I'm slowly putting together a 6809-based system to run it on.
Please share what you build. Microware's OS-9 was a very interesting OS. Also Nitros9 Level I & II is available for the 6809 (CoCo, ST2900, SWTPC).
With some kind assistance from Bob Applegate, I now have OS/9 Level I (the NitrOS9 distribution) up and running on an all-new-hardware (Corsham Tech) SS-50 6809 system. Some of the material has not yet been released, and Bob is still digging for some of the details and sources, but it boots and runs.
BTW< I think we lost Peter Stark's Star-K stuff. I think I have the HUMBUG source for the 6801, 6809 and 68K. I wish I had grabbed the rest when I had a chance.
I'd love a copy of those HUMBUG sources, if you don't mind.
Thanks for the reminder: https://linuxha.com/common/t/humbug-moto.zip Archive: /home/njc/hp/linuxha.dir/common/t/humbug-moto.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 0 2021-03-31 21:20 H/ 38261 2021-03-31 21:19 H/hb7500c.asm 77422 2021-03-31 21:12 H/humbug09.asm 52162 2021-03-31 21:12 H/HUMBUG09.TXT 1038822 2021-03-31 21:12 H/Humbug_68K_1987.pdf 24644 2021-03-31 21:19 H/humbug.inc 1762076 2021-03-31 21:12 H/Humbug.pdf 14014 2021-03-31 21:12 H/Humbug_P.Stark-cas.zip 3924 2021-03-31 21:12 H/Humbug_P.Stark-dsk.zip 1280 2021-03-31 21:19 H/motorola.inc 263699 2021-03-31 21:12 H/P4HUMBUG.TXT 846964 2021-03-31 21:20 H/Thoughts13.pdf 1338808 2021-03-31 21:20 H/Thoughts14.pdf --------- ------- 5462076 13 files hb7500c.asm - for the 6801 Tandy MC-10 humbug.inc - needed include file motorola.inc - needed include file I think I use the asl assemble but I can't be 100% sure. The other files are for the 6809 & 68K processors. The PDFs related to various articles related to Humbug. The cas and dsk are for the CoCo computers (6809). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
On 3/31/21 9:30 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
I have no experience with OS-9, but have taken an interest in it over the past few months. I'm slowly putting together a 6809-based system to run it on.
Please share what you build. Microware's OS-9 was a very interesting OS. Also Nitros9 Level I & II is available for the 6809 (CoCo, ST2900, SWTPC).
With some kind assistance from Bob Applegate, I now have OS/9 Level I (the NitrOS9 distribution) up and running on an all-new-hardware (Corsham Tech) SS-50 6809 system. Some of the material has not yet been released, and Bob is still digging for some of the details and sources, but it boots and runs.
BTW< I think we lost Peter Stark's Star-K stuff. I think I have the HUMBUG source for the 6801, 6809 and 68K. I wish I had grabbed the rest when I had a chance.
I'd love a copy of those HUMBUG sources, if you don't mind.
Thanks for the reminder:
Excellent. Thanks!
I think I use the asl assemble but I can't be 100% sure.
The other files are for the 6809 & 68K processors. The PDFs related to various articles related to Humbug. The cas and dsk are for the CoCo computers (6809).
Got it. I'll dig into this at some point soon. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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