"new" classics (was Re: Pre-history of Digital Research)

From: Sellam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sat Mar 20 21:03:44 1999

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> About every three weeks or so I kick around this idea of building a "new"
> classic computer. Lately my thoughts have been to build something with a
> loadable control store so that I could microprogram different instructions
> as I saw fit or was necessary. Of course the machine would have a front
> panel with switches and LEDs to indicate state.
>
> Unfortunately I think this is way off topic for this group.

I don't think so. But we could have Doug create a new list called
homebrew.

Homebrewing is a lost pasttime for the most part. I want to bring it
back, at least for myself.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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