newbie building a scratch-built computer

[Ensor]

Hi,

  >>....and it won't work in anything newer than an XT. :-(
  >
  > Why is that a disdvantage _on this list_? Surely original
  >IBM PC/XT machines are not hard to find (are they?) and
  >they're certainly repairable...

I've got a couple buried somewhere here (an XT and at least one XT-286).

The "disadvantage" to me is that I simply don't want to keep an old DOS 
machine like that going purely to burn the odd EPROM/PAL. Plus, I want to be 
able to burn EPROMs directly from this machine, the one I do my development 
work (such that it is at the moment) on, not mess about transferring the 
files to another machine....hency the reason I really should overhaul my 
"S3".

But I do take your point. :-)


  TTFN - Pete.