13 Dec
2008
13 Dec
'08
1:27 a.m.
got to read further down the messages. For fun, you might want to pull apart a Sega
Genesis. Radio Electronics had (2) project 68k thingees - 1 was just a write up of
supposedly a popular kit or project in Europe back when (never heard of it otherwise,
maybe it circulated around uni's and whatnot) - the other was a bona fide Gernsback RE
project, several installments (I don't have a complete set). It turns out that project
is still *supported*, presumably by the person who developed it, and received *free*
advertising in the magazine. He wants an absorbadent amount of money for anything related
to it. The schematics and artwork even was featured in the magazine, but rom listing were
not. You'll likely want to write your own.
There has been interest in these items on the list in the past. Like I said I don't
have a complete set of articles, but at least 1 or 2. I'll dig them out and look them
over and get back to you. One neat thing about the RE unit - it had an 8-bit ISA bus.
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
From: John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com>
Subject: 68k homebuilts
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:39 PM
Hi everyone
As a 4th year computer engineering student with a part time
job, I
definitely have too much time on my hands, so I've been
thinking about
doing something like building my own computer. I remember
playing with
the 68k SBCs back in my assembly class, so I thought
something from
that family might be an interesting choice. It's
ambitious, but
ideally I'd like to do 16/32 bits and a few megs of
memory.
Have any of you built something like this? I'm looking
for links to
project pages, shared experiences, and advice on what
processor to
use. Reminiscence is welcome too, if you have fond memories
of such a
thing :)
Thanks
John Floren
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