Harold, facinating! We were giving Prolog pretty good competition
at the time. The first CPU products were 6800 and 6801-based. The
6809 version became very popular. I was designing energy management
systems using their products and that's how I ended up working for
them. That and the fact that I knew the founders ;-)

   - Tom

At 11:06 AM 4/17/00 -0700, Harold M Hallikainen wrote:
>> I Wrote
>> >    When I was working for Datricon designing 6809-based STD Bus
>> embedded
>> > controllers, Marketing actually took prototype boards, stuffed
>> them in a
>> > box, added some wire bundles, set the box on top of the elevator,
>> took a
>> > picture, and made a wonderful full-color brochure about our hot
>> new
>> > product controlling an elevator. Never mind that it didn't exist
>> yet...
>> >
>> >    - Tom
>> >
>        Hmmm... I used a Datricon 6800 STD board in a transmitter control
system
>for broadcasters. I later designed my own 6802 board, but I think one of
>the original systems is still an AM/FM station there...
>
>Harold


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New Age Communications
Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)