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From: jon@jim.odr.oz (Jon Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: NS32000 computer kit wishlist
Summary: Cheap hardware is not the problem.
Message-ID: <193@jim.odr.oz>
Date: 8 Feb 88 03:06:24 GMT
References: <3703@bcsaic.UUCP> <4953@nsc.nsc.com>
Organization: O'Dowd Research Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia.
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Yes
    I'd like a 32k box at home instead of the silly Pc I have.

Yes
    The company that I work (?) for has a big box full of 32k parts
that no one will ever use (I've forgotten why we brought them).

Yes
    I've thought about designing some hardware, in fact I did
quite a lot of work on it late one night when I was to drunk
to know better.

Yes
    I would be quite happy to sit down a finish such a design and
make the results public domain. I'd even get a lot of help from
other interested people just around here. Pcb's could be made
available at cost+post, people that could solder could help their
friends that can't etc. Just I like old days of S100 buss CPM systems.

Great but then what!!!

My pocket money doesn't stretch to the $US50k for a Unix source Lic.
and I don't really have enough spare(?) time to port it even if I did know
where to start.

The National people in this country wouldn't know if their whatsit
was on fire, so their not going to be of any help.
So a lump of hardware without any software is just another pile
of junk.

Maybe we have to wait until the FSF people get GNU finished.

Maybe we should ALL be helping them!!!

Maybe National could offer to help with such a thing.
  It could be good for them if it was a reasonable box and if it
  was I think you might find a few people apart from the odd
  hardware hackers using it.

Maybe I'll just live with the Pc at home until I win a lottery,
 then I'll go buy a Sun!

Any other ideas folks?
		jon
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