Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!cs.umass.EDU!HELLER From: HELLER@cs.umass.EDU ("From the screen of Deneva... 09-Dec-1988 1113") Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc Subject: RE: HomeBrew 68k kits? Message-ID: <8812091616.AA26484@crash.cs.umass.edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 16:15:00 GMT Sender: mwm@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 Approved: info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu > 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). Robert Heller ARPANet: Heller@CS.UMass.EDU BITNET: Heller@UMass.BITNET BIX: Heller GEnie: RHeller FidoNet: 1:321/153 (Locks Hill BBS, Wendell, MA) CompuServe 71450,3432 Local PV VAXen: COINS::HELLER UCC Cyber/DG: Heller@CS