Re: APPLE ][ Clone-Project?

["Andrew Trotman" <andrew@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>]

> > is there a project out there in the endless net space, to build a 100%
> > compatible apple II clone with modern chips?

I paid $5.00 for a stack of 30 Apple //e motherboards on ebay.  They don't
boot without the keyboard attached, so I bought a keyboard for $5.00 too.

This seems like the currently cheapest wasy to solve this problem at the
moment.  They are all original components and when I finally blow one up
I'll fix it from bits on the other motherboards.

There are some obvious projects to make this "more modern":
    Replace the Apple keyboard with a PC keyboard.
    Replace the Disk ][ with IDE controller / zip-drive.
    Replace the 80 Col card with a polygon rendering card.

There are some "problems" with a 100% modern compatible:
    Where are you going to get a "modern" 1978 style floppy disk drive?
    What OS are you going to run? Will DOS 3.3 run on a 50Gb hard drive?
    100% compatible with what?  ][ ][plus //e //c or IIgs?
    There are no "modern" versions of some of the original chips!!
    The custom chips no longer exist so a clone may be physicaly large.


Andrew.