From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: r.post@sara.nl (Remco Post)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Open source hardware
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:04:41 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301171004.h0HA4fPZ000403@darkstar.example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030117103630.1807b78f.r.post@sara.nl> from "Remco Post" at Jan 17, 2003 10:36:30 AM
> Oh, BTW remember the Apple ][? One could get all hardware docs for that
> bocs, schematics for the entire circuit, the works. That made it very easy
> to build clones, and some people did that, turned out, those were not much
> cheaper that apple's original box....
Yeah, the docs were on fold-out sheets at the back of the manual! I
think I even had schematics for the floppy disk controllers. the
Apple ][ was a really nice machine - I remember I had, (infact, still
have, although I haven't powered it on for around 10 years!), the
following peripherals in mine:
Slot 0 - Language card
Slot 1 - 16K RAM card
Slot 2 - Empty
Slot 3 - Z80 processor
Slot 4 - Third disk controller
Slot 5 - Second disk controller
Slot 6 - First disk controller
Slot 7 - PAL encoder
I only had four floppy drives, so the third disk controller was never
used. I didn't have an 80-column card, nor a serial interface :-(,
but I did have *** 96K *** of RAM!!! Truely the power of a mainframe
on the desktop... Almost.
John.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-17 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-16 17:11 Open source hardware John Bradford
2003-01-16 17:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-16 22:25 ` John Bradford
2003-01-17 16:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-16 21:48 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2003-01-17 9:36 ` Remco Post
2003-01-17 10:04 ` John Bradford [this message]
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