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ELECTRONIC PRODUCT ASS. EPA-6800	Computers	Home Computer	U.S.A.	1977	Motorola 6800	name image company company_name specs tabs photos comments oc_id source EPA-6800 /media/museum/photos/epa_6800_uncovered_1.jpg /companies/electronic-product-ass ELECTRONIC PRODUCT ASS. label value NAME EPA-6800 label value MANUFACTURER Electronic Product Ass. label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1977 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Hexadecimal monitor label value KEYBOARD 16 keys hexadecimal label value CPU Motorola 6800 label value SPEED Unknown label value RAM 256 bytes label value TEXT MODES 6 digit LED display label value I/O PORTS Exorciser bus, expansion connector label value POWER SUPPLY External AC adaptor label value PERIPHERALS Various extensions boards label value PRICE Unknown photos title subtitle text image COVERED SYSTEM A smoke colored plastic lid covered and protected the board and components. /media/museum/photos/epa_6800_system_1.jpg author date text Marc Lewis (Spokane, WA) Monday 7th December 2009 I bought one of these, probably in about 1978. I think I paid $795 for it. I was working in the Cal Poly computer center as the Systems Supervisor (I did the systems programming for the IBM 360/40). Being a software guy, about all I could do with it was disassemble the ROM and write some simple stuff. Not much RAM, and no way to get the program in other than typing in the machine language for it. Of course when you turned it off, the program went away. I recall selling it to an EE student at Cal Poly who was going to use it in his Senior Project to create a LORAN-C device of some kind. I don''t know if he succeeded or not. 765 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230208162838/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=765 2023-02-08

Virtually no information about this classic training board made in San Diego, California, and mainly used for educational purpose. Like most of the 6800 based systems of the time, the board was equipped with an Exorciser bus connector as well as its own expansion connector.

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