homemade computer for fun and experience...

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Apr 4 18:19:26 1999

<I'd thought of that, but if you're not careful, your 'homebrew computer'
<contains ready-built I/O cards only. That's no so educational as building
<them yourself.

Depends on what your goals are. For me building yet another serial or disk
card is tedious and repetition. I'd rather experiment with advaced software
on old style but enhanced platforms.

<Sure. But the IIRC, this thread started with somebody wanting to make
<their first homebrew machine. IMHO, this should be a fairly simple
<machine - say a Z80 + maximum of 64K memory. Adding lots more memory,
<MMU, etc can come later. The first machine should be something that is
<likely to work first time.

No arguement. As a first pass machine static is usually the least painful
to deal with as are simple serial IO. The usual first time builder wants
more than their skills can generally support.

Allison
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 18:19:26 BST