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[Brian L. Stuart]

> Thanks for that; I've seen quite a lot of homebrew machines over the years, 
> but they always seem to be lacking the back-story of quite why their inventors 
> built them, or of how they got them working, so that was a good read!
> 
> (I've always been curious as to how many homebrew machines 'just work' on 
> their first try - in the sense that at at least the CPU, enough memory, and 
> enough I/O comes to life in order to debug things further.)

I did two lo these many years ago.  It was 1987, but I still can't
bring myself to think it's been over 20 years.  Anyway, they were
part of a larger, multi-processor system.  As I recall, they did
mostly just work.  But I should mention that I used static RAM
rather than dynamic and I'm sure that helped.  I never did finish
debugging the floppy controller though...  It was for my master's
and once I had defended, I don't think I ever powered it up again.

And re the other thread, my schematics were all hand-drawn.  They
were good enough that my (at that time newlywed) wife was able to
do the wire-wrapping on one of them.

BLS