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Howdy guys. I built my first (and last) 6802 board back in '78, a couple of months later I got a SYM-1 board. For me that was it - I was firmly in the 6502 camp A year later I got the OSI Superboard , another 6502 system this time with a real keybd and tv output. At the time I was living in Vancouver, Canada and working in a wholesale electronics store. One of the regular customers/client had some clone Apple motherboards for around $20. I got one as I couldn't afford a real Apple. I built it up and got it working, but I didn't much like it - I preferred the Superboard and so stuck to that.

Fast-forward to '86 and I was back in England, computer-less I had an Atari 400 for a while but didn't get on with it the kybd sucked big-time! Then Atari brought out the 1040ST, it had a midi port - I was sold. That was more or less the end of 'real' computing for me, no more machine code for a looong time. Time went on at some point I got a PC with windows 3 on it.

In 2015 I heard about the WDC65c02. That briefly got me back into it, I made a couple of pcbs and played around with it for a while. Didn't have much time due to work and life and so it faded away. I retired at the beginning of the pandemic as we couldn't go anywhere or do anything. I finally had the time to get back to stuff I wanted to do. I built my 1st system that could output to the screen, first on breadboard:
and then on a pcb:
Which brings us upto the present with a hankering to play with the 6809. I searched around and eventually found Greg on youtube. And the rest is history, it's re-ignited my hunger for programming and a new processor. Though I still play with the 6502

Welcome! It's interesting how many of our own stories are very similiar in regards to getting started with our first 8-bit processor in the late 70's or early 80's, having awesome experiences with the challenges and huge potential of this new technology, only to have life / careers take over our available time.
Then, more recently, having the opportunity to rediscover the excitment of the early days, when we built our own and were close to the hardware.

My first home built system was 6800 around 1979. So, we had a similar start. I would have been 6802 as well, if I hadn't been able to get my hands on 6875 clock generator!

We need to get your photos visible to all. I'm just seeing broken image links at the moment. I see they are SSL image links, so you'd think they'd just work? Perhaps some issue with google authentication?

I've used imgbly.com (free image hosting), for my image hosting, which seems to work well with our phpBB Forum.
The imgbly hosted raw image https links look like this example: I've also noticed somebody has used the attachment option for images. You could try this also.
eg. ... and using the 'attachment" tab when posting to upload the attachment.

Thanks Greg. I was using Google. I went and joined Imgbly and that didn't work either so
I tried the attachment method. This works but it wouldn't let me have more than 3 images
per post. So I cut the post in half and reposted it as a part 2

lenzjo wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:17 am Thanks Greg. I was using Google. I went and joined Imgbly and that didn't work either so
I tried the attachment method. This works but it wouldn't let me have more than 3 images
per post. So I cut the post in half and reposted it as a part 2

Thanks. I've further update my Including Images in your Posts post, to cover the 3 image per post attachment limit, that you mention.

Note also, I've expanded on the imgbly use. Specifically that the link requires the image file extension (not included in the default link shown on image upload). Instead, by viewing the image in imgbly, there is a BBCode link provided that you can just Copy & Paste (the key difference being the inclusion of the file extension).

I'm wondering if this is the reason imgbly didn't work for you?

Editor wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 9:40 pm

lenzjo wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 8:17 am Thanks Greg. I was using Google. I went and joined Imgbly and that didn't work either so
I tried the attachment method. This works but it wouldn't let me have more than 3 images
per post. So I cut the post in half and reposted it as a part 2

Thanks. I've further update my Including Images in your Posts post, to cover the 3 image per post attachment limit, that you mention.

Note also, I've expanded on the imgbly use. Specifically that the link requires the image file extension (not included in the default link shown on image upload). Instead, by viewing the image in imgbly, there is a BBCode link provided that you can just Copy & Paste (the key difference being the inclusion of the file extension).

I'm wondering if this is the reason imgbly didn't work for you?

Yeah, that missing extension "feature" caught me out too... -_-