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- From: dwight@s1.gov (Dwight Shih)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: Building your own PC
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.165531.20413@s1.gov>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:55:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: s1.1992Jul30.165531.20413
- References: <1992Jul30.071820.28653@infko.uucp>
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- In article <1992Jul30.071820.28653@infko.uucp> hodgen@infko.uni-koblenz.de writes:
- >In article <55421@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gfritz@sage.cc.purdue.edu ("Happy Fun Ball") writes:
- >
- >>Hello, netters. I`m interested in building my own computer from scratch, but
- >>I don`t know where to begin. So, you may ask, why would I want to even try?
- >>[Deleted]
- >>My question: Are there any text files out there (especially obtained by FTP)
- >>that explain how to do this? Could anyone reccomend any good published books
- >>for the novice?
- >>
- >
- >This came up in comp.arch a while back and I saved the references 'cos I'd
- >really like to build my own too. I just don't have the time - *sigh*.
- >
- Depending upon what your objectives are, you might want to pick up a
- uP evaluation board and hang your ideas off of it. You can get a
- LR33000 eval board from LSI or a R3051 eval board from idt for less
- than $1k (both are MIPS R3000 derivatives). Either of these will provide
- a core system with rom, dram, and a 2681 duart.
-
- dwight dwight@s1.gov
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