Re: Homemade Apple II

[Raymond Wiker <raw@RawMBP.local>]

mwillegal <mike@willegal.net> writes:

> On Dec 11, 2:27�pm, Adam Hall
> <adam_replacethiswiththeyearthiswaspostedinnumb...@polyex.com> wrote:
>> Apologies if this was already posted, saw these cool pics online of a
>> homemade Apple II:
>>
>> http://www.activeopen.co.jp/ASL/apple/
>
> I'm just amazed that this wasn't done in wire wrap.  I can't recall
> ever seeing another micro-computer constructed this way.  Point to
> point hard wiring of circuits like this, pretty much disappeared with
> the widespread adoption of the PCB in the late 50's.  This reminds me
> of the vintage  Radio and TV chassis that hobbyist are spending so
> much time slaving over these days.
>
> It looks like the builder color coded data bus, address bus and

	There's a company in the UK that makes equipment for a
solder-based alternative to wire-wrapping:
http://www.rrunner.co.uk/index.htm, so I guess this way of doing
things is not completely dead, yet.

	I was quite impressed with this homemade Apple II... apart
from anything else, it had a downright "organic" look; almost as if it
had been grown instead of constructed :-)