SWTPC 6800 Microcomputer with 6809 CPU Card
date: label: Date made
content: 1977 - 1981
name: label: maker
content: Southwest Technical Products Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: This microcomputer was built from SWTPC parts by Robert Wood in 1977 and then updated from 1978 onward by his brother, journalist and then freelance writer Lamont Wood (the donor). Originally, the computer did not have an enclosure, just rubber "feet" under it. Lamont Wood reports that "sitting in the corner of the table it looked, altogether, like a weird, huge rat's nest." After he bought the computer from his brother, Lamont Wood put the it in the metal enclosure and began the first of a series of upgrades. The 6809 CPU card was purchased during Wood's 1981 upgrade along with more memory, a dual disk drive and a new terminal.
label: Description
content: For related documentation, see 2007.3008.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Lamont Wood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0009.02
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0009.02
label: accession number
content: 2007.0009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microcomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 16 in x 16 in; 17.78 cm x 40.64 cm x 40.64 cm