General informtion about SWTPC and this computer see : SWTPC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When I sold my collection of computers on Ebay , one of the machines I decided not to sell was a SWTPC 6800 computer . I got one free from a university professor , Raymond Boute of the Ghent University . It came complete with all the hardware and the documentation and was still in good working condition
My working computer with the 5 1/4 " disk drive
Processor board with 6800 and ROM Monitor SWTPBUG , no Ram Chip 6810 installed
2 8K Ram boards
16K Ram board Smoke Signal Broadcast
Minidisk Controller Percom Data LFD-400
3 Floppy disk Roms
MP-C card
MP-S Interface card for ASCII Terminal (300 Baud)
MP-L interface card
Mysterious calculator card with MM57109FAN/N chip
SWTBUG running on my Lear Siegler ADM5 ASCII Terminal
Percom Disk system demonstration running 2 files saved on diskette
The documentation is relatively complete and consists of:
SWTPC System documentation
-6800 hardware
-6800 programming
-Mikbug operating system and engineering note MCM6830L7 Mikbug/Minibug ROM
-6800 software for SWTPC
-SWTPC 6800 co-resident Editor/Assembler
-6800 SWTPC resident Editor /Assembler MP-E
-Swtbug Rom Monitor V 1.0
-Instruction manual TC-3 cassette interface
-CFM3 cassette operating system
-SWTPC 6800 co-resident Editor/Assembler
-MPA system board assembly and technical doc
-MPB motherboard
-MP-P power supply
-MP-M Memory Board
-M-16X static memory board
-MP-MX Memory expansion kit
-MP-C Control interface
-MP-S Serial interface
-MP-R Eprom Programmer (Hardware not prensent)
-Percom Mini disk Controller LFD-400
Casette software-not tested
MP-R ver 1.0
TSC Basic for 6800
Lisp Version 1.5 Microware systems corp
CFM3 System
Utils Cfm3
Software documentation
-TSC 6800 Disassembler SL68-27
-Edit 68, RA6800 Resident macro linking assembler, Linkage Editor by UM
-RT/68MX system as replacement for Mikbug by Microware Systems Corporation
-Lisp V1.5 by Microware Systems Corporation
-Percom Super basic Users Manual
-TSC basic for 6800 Users Manual
-M6800 Co-Resident Assembler Reference Manual by Motorola M68CRA(D)
-Percom LFD-400 system manual
-Percom INDEX Disk operating and file management system for 6800 computers
Internet links
A very complete website concerning this computer can be found at Michael Holley's SWTPC Collection Home Page , which I recommand to everybody
Disk images for SWTPC 6800 see http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img14256/system.ht
Evenson Consulting Services SWTPC 6800/6809 Emulator
Last update 1/11/2008