[sdiy] Timbreon and firmware synth

[Tom Arnold]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:59:44PM +0100, ASSI wrote:
> I've looked around a bit and it seems that SparcStation 4/5 boards are 
> more readily available, more powerful and cheaper, too - around $40 for 
> a board with 70MHz CPU and minimum amount of memory and around $75 for 
> a complete base system including PSU.

Apple G3 boards are readily available, also have the Forth based
OpenFirmware plus take standard PCI cards and memory.  For this you'd want
to pick a Biege G3 board as it has onboard video also.  Complete desktop
Beige G3's are in the $100 range these days.  They're a bit faster then a
typical sparcstation4 or 5.

An old pizza box does have a higher geek factor...

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