ITI Audio/Sontec is known for world-class analog mastering equipment, but in the 80s they designed and prototyped a FORTH computer based on the Rockwell R6500 series CPUs:
http://www.glitchwrks.com/2022/09/28/so ... h-computerHere's a picture of the last assembled stage of prototyping:
There's actually a further revision for which we have acetate artwork and a blank prototype board, but the schematics have been lost, and the prototype is from the 1980s and does not have plated-through holes! The Sontec FORTH computer was a big inspiration for our own R65X1Q SBC:
https://www.tindie.com/products/glitchw ... -computer/The ICs purchased for the development of the Sontec FORTH computer are where the images for RSC-FORTH that we recovered came from:
https://github.com/glitchwrks/rsc_forth