When you’re building one of the very best homebrew computers ever created, you’ll likewise want a fantastic situation for it. This was [Simon]’s task when he went about building an enclosure for his Kiwi microcomputer.
We were introduced to the Kiwi last year as the end result of [Simon] developing the supreme computer from the early to mid-1980s. inside is a 68008 CPU, similar to the processor discovered in early Macs as well as Amigas, two SID chips taken from a Commodore 64, Ethernet, support for IDE difficult drives as well as floppy disks, as well as a video screen processor capable of providing VGA resolution video at 32-bit color depth. Basically, if this computer existed in 1982, it would either be hideously costly or extraordinarily popular. most likely both, now that I believe about it.
The situation for the Kiwi was thoroughly cut from ABS sheets, glued together with acetone, as well as painted with car body paint by a friend. It’s a fantastic piece of work, however the effort may be for naught; [Simon] is reworking the style of his Kiwi computer, as well as ideally he’ll be spinning a few additional boards for everybody else that wants a piece of the Kiwi.