On 6/20/2016 2:41 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
 This is frankly amazing. Thankyou for the details. Maybe one day I'll be
 able to volunteer some help. (Actually if there's anything I can do now,
 as an electronics noob but beginning student of digital logic & FPGA,
 let me know offlist.) 
How about a REAL FPGA board that has 5 volt I/O and 36+ bit wide memory
would make some big computers a reality.
Ben.