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SWTPC 6800 Computer System

Computer published 49 years ago by Southwest Technical Products Corp.

Listed in MAME

SWTPC 6800 Computer System © 1975 Southwest Technical Products Corp.

The SWTPC 6800 is an 8-bit general purpose mainframe with a total memory capacity of up to 48K bytes of RAM, ROM, EPROM or a combination of the three. The system is based upon the Motorola 6800 microprocessor and features an 8-bit bidirectional data bus and a 16-bit memory/peripheral address bus..

TECHNICAL/MACHINE PICT.
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The system includes a chassis, power supply, mother board, processor board, memory board and interface board. The mother board has slots for processor and memory type boards and eight I/O boards. The processor board has sockets for up to 8K of ROM or EPROM. The interface board provides an RS-232 type serial interface.

TRIVIA

Released in November 1975. The 6800 system was available in kit, or in assembled form. The assembled systems were available with 4K, 8K, or 40K memory.

SOURCES

Machine's bios.