Southwest Technical Products Corp.

Lucien Stevens SWTPC 6800 hardware and software documentation collection.


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