68k homebuilts

[Chris M]

got to read further down the messages. For fun, you might want to pull apart a Sega Genesis. Radio Electronics had (2) project 68k thingees - 1 was just a write up of supposedly a popular kit or project in Europe back when (never heard of it otherwise, maybe it circulated around uni's and whatnot) - the other was a bona fide Gernsback RE project, several installments (I don't have a complete set). It turns out that project is still *supported*, presumably by the person who developed it, and received *free* advertising in the magazine. He wants an absorbadent amount of money for anything related to it. The schematics and artwork even was featured in the magazine, but rom listing were not. You'll likely want to write your own.
 There has been interest in these items on the list in the past. Like I said I don't have a complete set of articles, but at least 1 or 2. I'll dig them out and look them over and get back to you. One neat thing about the RE unit - it had an 8-bit ISA bus.

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Floren <slawmaster at gmail.com>
> Subject: 68k homebuilts
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:39 PM
> Hi everyone
> 
> As a 4th year computer engineering student with a part time
> job, I
> definitely have too much time on my hands, so I've been
> thinking about
> doing something like building my own computer. I remember
> playing with
> the 68k SBCs back in my assembly class, so I thought
> something from
> that family might be an interesting choice. It's
> ambitious, but
> ideally I'd like to do 16/32 bits and a few megs of
> memory.
> 
> Have any of you built something like this? I'm looking
> for links to
> project pages, shared experiences, and advice on what
> processor to
> use. Reminiscence is welcome too, if you have fond memories
> of such a
> thing :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John Floren
> 
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