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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2006-01-26
Maybe if they showed the other side of the boards where the wire-wrap is it would not look so clean.
Like this?
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/Pictures/alu_12.JPG
and these:
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/photo_gallery.htm
Honestly, it's still a pretty clean deal
(edit: added quote at top)
Edited 2007-11-05 00:14