wraggster
February 28th, 2013, 00:13
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When you’re building one of the best homebrew computers ever created, you’ll also want a great case for it (http://www.ist-schlau.de/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=901). This was [Simon]‘s task when he went about building an enclosure for his Kiwi microcomputer.
We were introduced to the Kiwi (http://hackaday.com/2012/09/08/building-the-best-homebrew-computer-ever/) last year as the end result of [Simon] designing the ultimate computer from the early to mid-1980s. Inside is a 68008 CPU, similar to the processor found in early Macs and Amigas, two SID chips taken from a Commodore 64, Ethernet, support for IDE hard drives and floppy disks, and a video display processor capable of delivering VGA resolution video at 32-bit color depth. Basically, if this computer existed in 1982, it would either be hideously expensive or extraordinarily popular. Probably both, now that I think about it.
The case for the Kiwi was carefully cut from ABS sheets, glued together with acetone, and painted with auto body paint by a friend. It’s a great piece of work, but the effort may be for naught; [Simon] is reworking the design of his Kiwi computer, and hopefully he’ll be spinning a few extra boards for everyone else that wants a piece of the Kiwi.
http://hackaday.com/2013/02/27/the-coolest-homebrew-computer-gets-its-own-case/
When you’re building one of the best homebrew computers ever created, you’ll also want a great case for it (http://www.ist-schlau.de/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=901). This was [Simon]‘s task when he went about building an enclosure for his Kiwi microcomputer.
We were introduced to the Kiwi (http://hackaday.com/2012/09/08/building-the-best-homebrew-computer-ever/) last year as the end result of [Simon] designing the ultimate computer from the early to mid-1980s. Inside is a 68008 CPU, similar to the processor found in early Macs and Amigas, two SID chips taken from a Commodore 64, Ethernet, support for IDE hard drives and floppy disks, and a video display processor capable of delivering VGA resolution video at 32-bit color depth. Basically, if this computer existed in 1982, it would either be hideously expensive or extraordinarily popular. Probably both, now that I think about it.
The case for the Kiwi was carefully cut from ABS sheets, glued together with acetone, and painted with auto body paint by a friend. It’s a great piece of work, but the effort may be for naught; [Simon] is reworking the design of his Kiwi computer, and hopefully he’ll be spinning a few extra boards for everyone else that wants a piece of the Kiwi.
http://hackaday.com/2013/02/27/the-coolest-homebrew-computer-gets-its-own-case/