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Motorola EXORSET 30

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Professional Computer

U.S.A.

1982

Motorola 6809

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EXORSET 30

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Motorola

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NAME	EXORSET 30

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MANUFACTURER	Motorola

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TYPE	Professional Computer

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ORIGIN	U.S.A.

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YEAR	1982

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KEYBOARD	Full-stroke keyboard with 16 function keys

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CPU	Motorola 6809

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SPEED	4 MHz

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RAM	48 KB

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ROM	Unknown

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TEXT MODES	40 x 16, 40 x 25, 80 x 22

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GRAPHIC MODES	320 x 256

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COLORS	monochrom

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SOUND	Unknown

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I/O PORTS	Monitor, RGB, Centronics, RS232 (2), Tape

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BUILT IN MEDIA	2 x 5.25'' disk units (800kb each)

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OS	XDOS

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BasinStreetDesign (Canada)	Saturday 29th January 2022	I worked on this system for 2 1/2 years during 1981-3 to develop 2 products for a motion film industry processing lab. It had no connection to a printer until I hand-made a cable from its motherboard to a Centronics parallel connector. It was slow, the Basic was slow to execute and every sw update had to be burned into several EPROMS each time to try a sw fix/upgrade. But it worked!

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James (UK)	Tuesday 11th June 2019	I saw one of these in pretty bad shape in a warehouse. How much are these heavy beasts worth??

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Miguel Saro (France)	Thursday 10th November 2011	I worked many years with an EXorset 30!! It was a nice machine!

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230416221451/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=124	2023-04-16

The Exorset was designed by Motorola firstly to be a development kit for the MC6809 and Motorola systems.

It has a built-in green 9'' monochrom screen and two 5''1/4 floppy-drives.
It runs under XDOS (a compatible MDOS operating system).

It is sold with a compiled Basic (BASICM), a text editor and an assembler.

Douro reports us :
The Motorola Exorset-30 has amazing graphic and sound capability. A modified version of this hardware is used in Williams arcade machines !

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