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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: 68k homebrew info wanted
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 10:37:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 10:37:16 1986
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Summary: Best sources are The Rainbow and 68 Micro Journal


     This is getting redundant, since I've mentioned these 2 magazines
so many times before, but the best magazines to find OS-9 products are
68 Micro Journal and to a lesser extent for 68000 products, the Rainbow.
There are apparently at least 5 distinctly different 68K single board
computers on the market, 3 of which are distributed under a few names.
These 3 are the Mizar board, the Helix and the Gimix boards.  The Emerald
boards are their own.  The other major single board 68K systems are
the Motel Cypher (advertised in Byte March) which is an all-in-one
style computer and another one that's advertised occasionally in byte
which is an Educationally oriented computer as I recall (I can't
remember its name right now).  There is also a Canadian single board
educational computer by Waterloo (something or other).

     Lastly, I have heard that Microbox in England will have a single
board 68K system out soon too.

     I'm planning on buying the Cypher myself, but the OS-9 port hasn't
been completed yet (as far as I know) and I don't want to bother with
CP/M 68K.  It also has a Z-80 onboard, but then that's no better than
my Color Computer anyway.

                                       Cheers! -- Jim O.

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James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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