sicklittlemonkey wrote:
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 ...
Is postage that expensive? Crazy.
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.)
I like that! ;-) In the past, I've considered putting an Apple II in an old Mac case. -michael ******** Note new website URL ******** NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."