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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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
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2006-10-10
That's surprisingly clean for a DIY job. Hats off to the guy who did that. I'd like to know what he spent on it.
What's in that box represents my worst nightmare back in tech school.