Re: Hardware emulation of 6509 using 6502?

Den Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:46:45 +0100 skrev Michał Pleban
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> It's kind of sad that so many parts of this history are lost, and
> human memory after almost 40 years is too fragile to recover it
> reliably.

I've been thinking about this, and I wounder who if any will be
interested in this stuff when we who experienced home computers back in
the 80's aren't around any more?

Of course there are younger people interested in CBM stuff, and people
who were born in the 70's or are younger renovate old 60's 70's
mainframe and mini computers (like IBM 1401, PDP-8 and similar), but I
guess that the stories behind the creation of those machines are
probably lost.

> That makes me wonder what ultimately happened to Commodore documents
> (memos, design docs etc) that might be helpful in recreating timelines
> like this?

Yeah, from the imgur (or whereever it was) picture series with text
where someone rather recently fetched the last four PET's and two
terminals from the defunct CBM factory, I got the impression that there
were a lot of documentation and backup tapes and similar stuff, but
noone fetched that.

Maybe it's just junk, like copies of production yield data, already
well known stuff that atleast can be reverse-engineered from existing
hardware, but maybe it actually were some interesting stuff hidden in
there.


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