Re: RFC : SOME IDEAS FOR THE APPLE II FPGA'ers

["Simon D. Williams" <email@ld8.org>]

Jorge Chamorro Bieling wrote:
> Simon D. Williams <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> > How about this: Make the FPGA board (or whatever) as compact as possible
> > so that hobbyists can shove it inside a dead iPod or whatever mad scheme
> > they can dream up. Then make an expeansion board that has all the standard
> > slots and ports that the FPGA board fits into. The expansion board could
> > be a drop-in replacement for a real A2 mother board. With this kind of
> > arrangement you could even have a tablet style Apple II that could go
> > anywhere, but has the advantage of being "dockable" with a fully
> > compatible modern A2 clone.
>
> And how about this: The board fits in an Apple II slot connector, but it
> can be removed and used stand-alone too because it contains a video
> output, alternative keyboard input, and maybe one slot connector "just
> in case" (most likely for a MicroDrive IDE controller).

Check this out: http://www.epicempire.com/computers/space-cube.html
A 300 MHz PC with a full array of ports in a 2" cube. Of course that's
probably too small to be practical... imagine having to use "the dog
ate my computer" as an excuse.