12 Apr
1998
12 Apr
'98
4:33 a.m.
Jeff Kaneko wrote:
Guys:
Ok, I'm putting this up, and looking for opinions:
I have a NOS SwTPc 6800 MP-A CPU board. This was the first SS-50
6800 CPU available, and only the second 6800 CPU board of any stripe
available from anyone AFAIK (Moto was first, of course).
Here's the wrinkle: It's an unbuilt, BARE board. Given the somewhat
historic nature of this article, what would you do? Build it as
originally designed (most of the parts are still available), or
leave the board blank, as is?
I have several unbuilt boards including an IMSAI SIO and the National SCMP
microprocessor evaluation kits. For my part, I have no intention of ever
building them since I view them as a part of history. I tried about a year
ago to get an unbuilt Heatkit H?? computer that was designed to go into (I
think) an H19? terminal. He decided to allow his class to build it <sigh>
but we all have different reasons for doing things.