Message: 14
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:15:27 -0700
From: ben franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: Emulators of Classic Computers
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Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Tony Duell once
stated:
>Steve Ciarcia's bomebrew computers (he did several
-- I remember an
8088
>system in 5 chips, a sort-of PC compatible, a Z8
board without even
>thinking about it) were based on microprocessors.
But I do remember a
>Byte article on making a homebrew CPU (from TTL). I
think it was
called
'EGO',
and hung off a Tandy 2000.
I remember that. I still have the Byte magazines
the EGO appeared
in.
Neat CPU, made for floating point operations if I
recall.
-spc (Fondly remembers bytes from the mid 80s ...
)
But it was micro programed with EPROMS. Nice idea.
Ben.
hey, can u also fwd me a copy of the 'EGO' article ur
talking about. plss.......
i need it desperately...........
pls......
subs here
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