CUBIX/6809 updates

[dave04a at dunfield.com]

> Building a 6809 CUBIX machine does sound fun. I've been looking for a smaller
> project I can work with over time; I keep getting older computers (mostly sun
> or macintosh) and fixing them up, but then they're cleaned up and running and
> I get bored with them.
> 
> I'm not a hardware design guy though, and wirewrapping is out for me. I can do
> board stuffing and soldering, so if anyone else is going to design a
> "reference" pcb that people can go in on and order in some quantity to reduce
> costs, I'd be up for that.

Humm.... Soldering chips on a manufactured PCB (that someone else designed)
isn't really "building your own" (although it's a step ahead of what most people
today consider as "building a computer"). If you really want the experience,
design a system, prototype it and debug it - you will learn TONS more than you
would by soldering chips to a board. It's not nearly as hard as you might think
(start small).


> Dave, are there any areas of CUBIX that you have plans to improve or features
> to add, but don't have time?  If I'm going to build a little system to
> softwarily tinker with, I might as well make something useful out of my
> tinkering.

Possibly - Although Cubix was originally designed to be the OS for my main
computer, and by that fact is pretty close to what I envisioned. It was however
done 25+ years ago, and there is room for improvement. I'd wait until some
more people have gotten into it and see what feedback develops.

Regards,
Dave


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