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PostPosted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:37 pm 
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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-computer

Here's a picture of the last assembled stage of prototyping:

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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


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:10 pm 
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Have you gotten this computer running, or are you just collecting them?


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:11 am 
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I've gotten it running, and reverse engineered the bodge board enough to replace it with a GAL (I've written the PALASM but have not yet dropped it in, it'll require one jumper modification). This board was also largely the inspiration for the R65X1Q SBC!


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:58 pm 
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Neat, glad you got a running. I think this may be the slowest moving forum discussion I have participated in.


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