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Re: musing about building a minimalist Apple ][+ clone
- Subject: Re: musing about building a minimalist Apple ][+ clone
- From: dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)
- Date: 24 Feb 2004 22:24:50 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: GCFN (http://www.gcfn.org/)
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402232250070.12534-100000@localhost.localdomain> <pan.2004.02.24.05.07.30.408379@yahoo.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:3694
Sheldon Simms (sheldonsimms@yahoo.com) wrote:
: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 03:56:48 +0000, Steve Nickolas wrote:
: > I've heard about people building minimal computers, mostly Z80 CP/M boxen,
: > and I got to thinking, how hard would it be to build a minimal clone of
: > the Apple ][+ in hardware? Perhaps a palmtop ][ would be a nice thing to
: > have as an expensive toy XD ... just musing ^^;
: I imagine you could reproduce almost the entire motherboard in an FPGA,
: perhaps with some built-in "cards" as well.
Isn't that essentially what the MEGA-II IC in the IIgs is?
--Dave Althoff, ][.
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