On Jan 5, 23:24, Lanny Cox wrote:
  I loved alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt... only
lurked there, but it was
 sweet... are there any newer alternatives out there these days? 
 You probably remember that the rapidly-increasing number of off-topic posts
 led to a variety of attempted solutions.  That culminated in the creation
 of a moderated group, comp.arch.hobbyist.  The moderation is done by a
 'bot, with human backup, but the group traffic level is very low.  I
 suspect that's because the 'bot is too good, and it's actually hard to post
 as a newcomer, so interest has dropped off.  The last few times I tried to
 post, my posts bounced, and attempts to contact the human moderators
 failed.  Maybe I was just unlucky.  Anyway, you'll find the FAQ and charter
 on Mark Sokos' website, 
http://home.supernet.com/~sokos/cahfaq.htm although
 it's seriously out of date and a lot of the links are broken. 
I suspect the bot was there because of all the OT 'PC' posts - buy a
pentium
abc computer.The news group is still active, as there was a posting
yesterday.
A lot of people are building FPGA cpu's but many never seem to
get past the simulation stage. Here is a nice FPGA link
A lot of people seem to be going back to 6502 cpu's as 8 bit
controllers are coming back.
Since I am building a 12/24 bit FPGA cpu I tend to lurk every where
as nobody has come up with a new 12 bit computer since the PDP-8
The 8 is also a popular fpga design.