Re: A 21st Century Apple II?

[sicklittlemonkey <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

On Mar 4, 10:28 am, Alex Freed <alex_n...@mirrow.com> wrote:
> It would not be difficult to create a motherboard with a real 65C02,
> 128K of a (static) memory and logic to connect a PS2 keyboard plus a
> smallest and cheapest FPGA for glue logic, say S3AN - 50. Plus the most
> expensive part - the slot connectors.
>
> One reason not to do it is the fact that A2e is worth about $20 on e-bay
> and there is no shortage yet.

Or about $200 in Japan. :-) Anyway ...

A board like you describe above and a half-height drive mechanism
could probably be mounted quite nicely in a Disk ][ case. ;-)
(Or - perversely -in a Mac mini case.)

Cheers,
Nick.