[sdiy] (dead) old apple mac

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] (dead) old apple mac
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 13:40:23

> C'mon, you guys that have these gotta do something with them.
> That's a nice CPU.  I've only played with their runt litter
> mates 6800, 6803 and 6809.  Even these can do *something*
> musical.  The 68K line is quantum leaps better.

I've got 5 CPU cards out of old HP 9000/300 series computers.
4 of these are 68030 at 25 MHz with 68881 and 1 is 68030 at 20 MHz
68881. I've got those from a friend who personally took them over from
the US just to give me. I naturally intend to put them into a musical
use some rainy day (hmm... authum is coming closer).

How about 4 "voice cards" and one for "front end stuff"?

I just need to build myself a bus-card for these, add memory and the
necessary I/O stuff. I guess one memory card and one IO card has to be
built.

I still want to do a nice little 68k project. It seems like a nice
architecture, but I grew up with 6502 and later 8088/8086 stuff to be
followed by an 80386 (which I saw on my friends wall this evening),
486 etc. so I have still to quiet down my curisoity for the 68k.

Cheers,
Magnus