On 2016-08-27 07:30 PM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
If we are into playing mine is bigger ^h^h^h^h^h older then yours... I have a multibus NS16032 in my basement with an ST-506 multibus interface.
Uh, this isn't a game you want to play with Hugh around ... I'm pleasantly surprised that the EOMA68 was funded, as it looked mighty shaky going into the last few hours. I wish the future owners all the happiness a new computer can bring. Marketing a computer as entirely open, however, is going to be a tough sell. It's very hard to get people to care about abstractions like climate change or software freedom. What people do respond to is quality of life changes. If the EOMA68 is truly a computer that will never die because a manufacturer stopped updating a driver, that needs to be in big letters in the first line of their pitch. I'm unconvinced entirely on the argument that because (in theory) you can repair an EOMA68, it's a “green” computer. Unless you can repair multi-layer boards and SMT chips, it's so much e-waste if a component fails. To be green, it would also need to prove: * that it had best-in-class MIPS/mW rating; * that the manufacturer has a full Extended Producer Responsibility plan for cradle-to-cradle recycling built into the purchase price; and * that all components have been ethically sourced, so no “blood capacitors”* allowed. cheers, Stewart *: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan_mining_and_ethics