{"id":22837,"date":"2025-11-21T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?page_id=22837"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:59:49","slug":"vin164","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin164\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola Exorbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Motorola Exorbus<\/h2>\n<p>[Vin164]<\/p>\n<p>The Motorola Exorbus series, notably systems like the EXORciser, pioneered modular microcomputer design in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, becoming renowned for their flexible backplane bus architecture which enabled easy prototyping, debugging, and customization for varied industrial and academic needs. Their claim to fame lay in their critical role as development platforms for Motorola\u2019s influential 6800 and 6809 microprocessors, technologies that catalyzed the transition from minicomputers to more accessible, programmable workstations, and helped launch careers in both scientific and industrial computing. While never mass-market consumer machines, Exorbus computers were widely used and respected in universities, industrial control, and engineering labs.<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-22997\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Motorola Exorbus\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-2048x1538.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-content\/uploads\/PXL_20251210_183058558-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manufacturer<\/strong>: Motorola<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type<\/strong>: Single Board Computer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Release Date<\/strong>: 1976<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost at release<\/strong>: CAD $1,350 (adjusted for inflation)<\/li>\n<li><strong>MIPS<\/strong>: 100-400 KIPS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorola Exorbus [Vin164] The Motorola Exorbus series, notably systems like the EXORciser, pioneered modular microcomputer design in the mid-1970s and early 1980s, becoming renowned for their flexible backplane bus architecture which enabled easy prototyping, debugging, and customization for varied industrial and academic needs. Their claim to fame lay in their critical role as development platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":19704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Motorola Exorbus - School of Computer Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Motorola Exorbus The Motorola Exorbus series, notably systems like the EXORciser, pioneered modular microcomputer design in the mid-1970s and early 1980s,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin164\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin164\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/vintage-computing\/item\/vin164\/\",\"name\":\"Motorola Exorbus - 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