Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Nov 2007 15:45 UTC
"Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the Minix OS - a cousin of Linux [I beg your pardon?] - running on his homebrew minicomputer, today at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. Magic-1, built with 74-series TTL ICs using wire-wrap construction, implements a homebrew, 8086-like ISA."
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Actually, the first thing that came to my mind after seeing the Magic-1 block diagram was the almighty Z80