5 May
2010
5 May
'10
9:56 a.m.
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Liam Proven once
stated:
And the UK-made (Welsh, in fact) Dragon 32 and Dragon 64.
There was sod-all software for them, though, then or now...
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But if one were to try to design an actual computer that cheap,
something programmable that could maybe even do email and telnet and
really simple TCP/IP-type stuff ?like that, what would you put in the
box?
I am taking it as more or less a given that it would have to be a VERY
simple 1980s-style 8-bit machine. The easiest way might be to clone
one of the 80s home computers, implement it on a chip with some extra
software, like Jeri Ellsworth's fantastic Commodore 64 Direct-TV
device.
But which 8-bit?
?I would prefer the 6809 (which means, Color Computer). ?The chip is a
dream to program for, and with OS-9 (or a derivative) it would almost be
like Unix on a chip (not quite, but close enough). ?Give it the graphics of
the Commodore and you might have a winner on your hands.