Re: Homemade Apple II

[David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com>]

On Dec 14, 1:31 am, mwillegal <m...@willegal.net> wrote:
> I'm just amazed that this wasn't done in wire wrap.  I can't recall
> ever seeing another micro-computer constructed this way.

It looks familiar to me :-)

I designed and built two Apple // cards using prototype cards and
soldered wire-wrap wire - a dual port serial card and a ROMDisk card.

> It looks like the builder color coded data bus, address bus and
> control signals, which is a pretty nice touch.

I also color-coded my wires - it would have been insane to try to use
a single color...

I did not use wire-wrap sockets as it would have made the cards too
thick put in adjacent sockets.

While I was able to build a couple of cards this way, I am impressed
that someone managed to build an entire computer.