crazy projects in general Re: 68K (ISA) project

reading over your post got me to thinking Henk (and I took the liberty of deleting it - it already made the list - in deference to those paying by the kb). It would be nice if there were a group of us that would undertake group projects, like rigging together some kind of relatively small uP project. Being disposed to a democratic system, we could vote on projects - and the detractors would have to play along and play nice! LOL LOL Don't sound so democratic anymore! Seriously though. We all need other's enthusiasm to feed off of. Many many moons ago I had it in mind to build a small 6800 board. That's not such a bad first group project, if my opinion matters. Of course I lean towards Intel stuff, but I'm not exclusive to it. I must admit I'd drool rather profusely when I find 80186/88 based stuff in particular. If anyone is interested in this sort of *club*, please reply. And on list ;) There are rather easy ways of homebrewing etched circuit boards for instance (the drilling is a bit more arduous though). I attended a *class* at last years Trenton Computer Festival where the instructor taught us how to mask copper boards w/a commonly found grocery store product. Maybe a better 1st project would be to build an inexpensive CNC drilling device. Feedback is necessary.