[Coco] Electronic Computer Festival Badge Idea

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 05:03:54PM -0500, Zippster wrote:
> CPU, ROM, RAM, bit banged serial, with a few LEDs, and a monitor and BASIC in ROM?

Wow, OK -- I guess yours was going to run Python? But yeah, IMHO there is
some cleverness buried in that schematic if you take a close enough look...
 
> If a simple SBC like that is what’s wanted, it’s easy to do, but a little boring.  

I suppose we'll just have to be unimpressed by different things.

> Mr. Hart does know how to make a compact design with those huge old ICs though.
> I saw that badge PCB and immediately thought, “Same guy as the 1802 membership card?”
> Yep, there’s the name.  :)   He has a distinctive design style.

Indeed.
 
> - Ed
> 
> 
> > On Aug 30, 2017, at 4:08 PM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Frankly, I find the clever use of constrained resources in that 6502
> > badge design to be much more impressive.
> > 
> > But, build what you want! Clearly there is no need to impress me... :-)

But, build what you want! Clearly there is no need to impress me... :-)

(An idea so nice, I'll say it twice!)

> > 
> > John
> > 
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