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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)
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On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 21:29:08 +0000
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> > > The m6809 was a nice chip too, but again Motorola never got the
> > > PRICE down fast enough so it got lost in the crowd.  
> > 
> > That was a nice one alright, rather beloved among Forth people.  
> 
> I programmed that chip. Had a dire Introl C cross compiler running on
> a PDP/11
> So bad that assembler was often easier.
> 
> We had DOS PcS running wordstar to write the code, then uploaded the 
> source to the PDP by means I cannot recall - some sort of serial 
> protocol. then yelled 'ok to compile?' across the lab and if there
> were any spare CPU cycles, we compiled and linked the target....
> ...I cannot recall how we got it onto the 6809 PROMS.
> 
> Weird project, nice team though.

I still have a Motorola trainer board for the thing stashed away, which
I picked up from somewhere. Never have gotten around to doing anything
with it.