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    Southwest Technical Products Corporation, or SWTPC, was an American producer of electronic kits, and later complete computer systems. It was incorporated...
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    Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) produced the 8-bit SWTPC 6800 and later the 16-bit SWTPC 6809 kits that employed the Motorola 68xx series...
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    The SWTPC 6800 Computer System, simply referred to as SWTPC 6800, is an early microcomputer developed by the Southwest Technical Products Corporation...
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    The SS-50 bus was an early computer bus designed as a part of the SWTPC 6800 Computer System that used the Motorola 6800 CPU. The SS-50 motherboard would...
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    officially announced their SWTPC 6800 Computer System in November 1975. Wayne Green visited SWTPC in August 1975 and described the SWTPC computer kit complete...
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    Seven of that year's cover stories featured kits sold by SWTPC. In the years 1966 to 1971, SWTPC's authors wrote 64 articles and had 25 cover stories in...
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    Terminal Computer Processor Tech CUTS S-100 bus Tape I/O interface board SWTPC's Motorola 6800-based computers Tangerine Microtan 65 (300 baud CUTS — faster...
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  • Daniel Meyer of SWTPC enlisted Ed Colle, an engineer who had worked at Datapoint on terminal design, to design the new TV Typewriter. The SWTPC CT-1024 Terminal...
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  • of 2 are recommended as follows: kibi Ki 210 [...]" "SA400 minifloppy". Swtpc.com. 2013-08-14. Archived from the original on 2014-05-27. Retrieved 2014-03-25...
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    Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 versions Nord-100 LGP-30 LGP-21 Sage II SDS 940 SWTPC 6800 SEL-32 both Concept-32 and PowerNode systems Sigma "Preserving Computing's...
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  • Seven of that year's cover stories featured kits sold by SWTPC. In the years 1966 to 1971 SWTPC's authors wrote 64 articles and had 25 cover stories in Popular...
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    0 User's Manual FLEX 9.0 User’s Manual FLEX User Group FLEX User Group SWTPC 6800 FLEX 2 and 6809 FLEX 9 / UniFLEX / OS9 Level 1 emulator Windows-based...
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  • the Editor. InfoWorld. p. 21. Retrieved 2025-03-16. "SA400 minifloppy". Swtpc.com. 2013-08-14. Archived from the original on 2014-05-27. Retrieved 2014-03-25...
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  • Uiterwyk wrote MICRO BASIC 1.3 for the SWTPC 6800 system), which SWTPC published in the June 1976 issue of the SWTPC newsletter. Uiterwyk had handwritten...
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    the 6809 or switched to it exclusively. Examples include machines from SWTPC, Gimix, Smoke Signal Broadcasting, etc. Motorola also build a series of...
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  • Initially, in the days of the SS-50 bus and SS-50C bus systems such as SWTPC, Gimix, and Smoke Signal Broadcasting, OS-9 was used more as a general purpose...
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    1978.1059748. ISSN 0018-9464. S2CID 32505773. "Shugart SA 400 Datasheet". Swtpc. 25 June 2007. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 22 June...
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  • 6809 based computers. Examples included machines from SWTPC, Gimix and Goupil (France). On SWTPC machines, UniFLEX also supported a 20 MB, 14" hard drive...
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    Peschke, Manfred; Pesche, Virgina (2016-12-24). "Kansas City Standard". swtpc.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2023-01-09. Bureau...
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  • Processor Technology SAMDOS, original DOS for the SAM Coupé SDOS, for the SWTPC 6800 from the Southwest Technical Products Corporation Sinclair QDOS, for...
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  • Motorola 6809, SS-50 Bus and SS-50C bus systems from companies such as SWTPC, Tano, Gimix, Midwest Scientific, and Smoke Signal Broadcasting, STD-bus...
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    1977, with the introduction of the Apple II, the Tandy TRS-80, the first SWTPC computers, and the Commodore PET. Computing has evolved with microcomputer...
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    Helix Systems (in Missouri, United States) designed an extension to the SWTPC SS-50 bus, the SS-64, and produced systems built around the 68008 processor...
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    with 16 K of RAM for $685 you would get BASIC for free., Michael Holley's SWTPC Collection Home Page Allen, Paul (2011). Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder...
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    A Hazeltine 1500 being used as the primary interface to a SWTPC 6800 microcomputer....
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  • and case Comp-Sultants Micro 440 Intel 4040 1975 First 4040-based micro SWTPC 6800 Motorola 6800 1975 PCB, parts, and case Introduced SS-50 bus The Digital...
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    Electronics Simon (computer), a relay computer (demonstrator) from 1950 SWTPC TV Typewriter Survey of 150 computers, Computing Now, September 1984 pp...
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    system for the SWTPC 6800 proved a hot-seller for Midwest in 1976, the company began products for general-purpose computers like the SWTPC. In 1977, they...
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  • Chapel Hill, North Carolina, it was the foremost supplier of software for SWTPC compatible hardware, as well as many other early makes of personal computers...
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    front intake fans. Enthusiast case featuring translucent panel casemod SWTPC 6800 case with SS-50 and SS-30 buses—an early hobbyist machine Three of...
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