19 Jun
2007
19 Jun
'07
10:39 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
So how much $$ do you expect parts for such a beast would be?
Every once in a while, a fit overcomes me and I
contemplate what it
would take to re-implement the KS20 with a stack of 2901s and a pile
of fast SRAM. Fortunately, the madness passes before I can do much
more than think about it.
*snicker* Yes that would be fun. But man...there are
quite a few
really big boards in that machine. That would take some doing! There seem to have been several of those FPGA
projects, but they keep
dying. I guess people don't have a clear idea of the level of complexity.
So build a RISC flavor of a 9/18/36/72 bit machine. :)
Indeed it would. I've never booted mine. :-(
Someday I will find a
TU45.
Perhaps that would be a better project to emulate.
Spare Time Gizmos makes TU-58 Emulator. You might ask them to
emulate a tape drive too.
-Dave
--Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL