mountainking
Experienced Member
When are we going to get a SBC/trainer/development/evaluation/educational section up in this forum? Anyway....
I picked up this Motorola MEK 6800 D1 design evaluation board the other day and I'm super happy to have it in my collection. It's definitely the earliest SBC trainer I own and what's even cooler is that it's the first trainer that I ever even heard of as it was in the first book on microprocessors that I ever owned. The book is called A Microprocessor Course by Fohl from 1978, which seems to be the companion book for the trainer as well as the Motorola board and the 6800 cpu in general. I love that the board came with the original shipping box plus the other bits and pieces, including the aluminum foil
I need to pick up a couple chips that are missing but they are easy to find. One strange thing is all of the Motorola chips have 1975 date codes, but the rest of the chips have dates codes of 77 and 78. Do you think that maybe the board came with the Motorola chip set and that the rest of the chips were on the owner to pick up? I do like seeing those early date codes, for me when it comes to VC stuff the earlier the better.
Anyone cut their micro teeth on one of these?
I picked up this Motorola MEK 6800 D1 design evaluation board the other day and I'm super happy to have it in my collection. It's definitely the earliest SBC trainer I own and what's even cooler is that it's the first trainer that I ever even heard of as it was in the first book on microprocessors that I ever owned. The book is called A Microprocessor Course by Fohl from 1978, which seems to be the companion book for the trainer as well as the Motorola board and the 6800 cpu in general. I love that the board came with the original shipping box plus the other bits and pieces, including the aluminum foil
I need to pick up a couple chips that are missing but they are easy to find. One strange thing is all of the Motorola chips have 1975 date codes, but the rest of the chips have dates codes of 77 and 78. Do you think that maybe the board came with the Motorola chip set and that the rest of the chips were on the owner to pick up? I do like seeing those early date codes, for me when it comes to VC stuff the earlier the better.
Anyone cut their micro teeth on one of these?
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