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From: tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky)
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Subject: Re: Info wanted one buiding m68k systems
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Date: 15 Nov 90 19:00:52 GMT
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A recent request was made about good sources of info for someone
wanting to build a 680x0 system, a book I have found to be very
basic and practical is A. D. Wilcox  68000 Microcomputer Systems,
Designing and Troubleshooting by Prentice-Hall, 1987
ISBN 0-13-811399-8

Our science library has a host of others, but this one takes you
by the hand and has you actually build a 68000 cpu on a (*groan*)
S100 bus card.  Even though the S100 bus is horribly brain-damaged,
it has the advantage of being the current computer junkyard bargain,
so you could easily accumulate the needed peripherals to compose a
working system.  Then you can write the software ......