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Re: musing about building a minimalist Apple ][+ clone
- Subject: Re: musing about building a minimalist Apple ][+ clone
- From: Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:07:30 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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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.