newbie building a scratch-built computer (River)

[woodelf]

river wrote:
> Hi,

> I would have thought "scratch-built" implied designing and building your own
> home brewed system. Building a kit like the Micro-KIM is not a scratch build
> exercise. All it will do is give you more practise in soldering.

*In order to make an apple pie from scratch,
  you must first create the universe.* - Carl Sagan

End of argument! :)

> If the whole purpose of this exercise is to have an old 8-bit system so you
> can program in hex and/or assembler, then you can download an emulator and
> play around with it from there. If you mainly want to run things off the
> various serial and parallel ports then something like the Micro-KIM would be
> useful.

The other disadvantage is with a NEW scratch built computer is the software tools
needed like a assembler.
Ben alias Woodelf