Retro computer replicas (Altairduino, etc.)

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(04-17-2018 02:31 PM)Dave Britten Wrote:  Anybody else built one of these, or any other cool replica computer kits? I'd love to pick up other interesting ones in the sub-$200 range. There's a Raspberry-Pi-based PDP8/I kit that looks like about the same level of difficulty.

I receiver my kit yesterday and assembled most of it after work and finished up today. Played with it a little booted up CP/M seems to work great. I have wanted a blinking lights machine ever since I saw the operator panels on some 360 systems many years ago.

The PiDP-11 looks interesting even though I have no experience with DEC systems at all.

I also ran across a thing called "multicomp" which is basically recreating vintage micros using a FPGA with the VHDL source which could be a good VHDL learning experience.

Paul.