newbie building a scratch-built computer

[Grant Stockly]

At 04:50 PM 8/1/2007, you wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> >    A lot of (clueless) companies want their embedded code written in
> > Java or C++ or such foolishness, but really, if they're really that
> > stupid, you don't want to work for them anyway.
>
>Got any good stories?  I have one about a company that wanted a Z-machine
>to run on cell phones.  At the time it seemed feasable, but then they
>started doing things like not paying the bills.

I once replaced a 386 PC/104 SBC running Windows 3.1/VB4 with a $4 AVR...

Grant