Re: A Challenge to all takers...

["mspangler" <mspangler@gemsi.com>]

Ranando King wrote:
> Talking with Michael Mahon in the 65020 thread has dredged up what is
for me
> some serious dislikes about the way systems are made these days. Now
I've
> got a question and a challenge for all of you. Why can't we do it
again? Why
> can't we bring back everything we love about our Apple II's in a new
machine
> with enough power to compete with modern computers?
>
> Ideas?>
>
> R.

I read this, then ran across an ad for a Rabbit processor in Nuts &
Volts.
see   www.rabbitsemiconductor.com.

using one of these as a base would cut out a lot of work. If you can
live with a text display, you can probably get one of the serial ports
to drive a monitor in much the same way the Apple II does. Then all you
need is a decent Basic.

That comes to the next question; what's it for? If for gaming, there
are lots of game consoles already. If for the fun of programming, it's
frankly easier with a modern IDE. If you want to do digital I/O and
control stuff, or data logging, (my personal interest), then an Apple
II is still cheaper. Once you define the purpose, the solution should
be easier to see. 

Mike S.