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From: HELLER@cs.umass.EDU ("From the screen of Deneva...  09-Dec-1988 1113")
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Subject: RE: HomeBrew 68k kits?
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Date: 9 Dec 88 16:15:00 GMT
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> Date: 8 Dec 88 17:28:54 GMT
> From: Mike Norman 
> Subject: HomeBrew 68k kits?
> 
> I've been thinking about getting a home computer to
> hack around on, and I do not really wish to pay the
> sort of inflated prices that the "mainstream" 68000
> based home/hobby/business computer manufacturers wish to
> charge.
> 

Would you consider an Atari ST as "mainstream"?  ST's do not have what I would
call an "inflated" price:  a 1Meg system w/ monitor for under $1000.  Of
course, a hard disk is extra, but a "HomeBrew" hard disk sub-system is
posible for a reasonable price.

> My question is:  Are there any decent "roll-your-own"
> home-brew kits based around the 68000?  One that I could
> put, perhaps, MINIX on?
> 

MINIX is available for the ST.  So is OSK (Professional OS-9/68000 goes for
$600).  I run OSK on my 1040ST and HomeBrew hard-disk sub-system (40Meg -
st251).

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