Greetings Everyone, I'm Joe Giliberti. I had been a member of the original MARCH up until 10 or so years ago, when a personal issue prompted me to leave. It also didn't help matters that it took me more time than most to grow up into a responsible adult. Now that many things have changed and that I've been getting back into the hobby over the past few years, I've decided to come back. I keep making plans to get to events but something always seems to interfere. I'm really hoping I'll be able to get to the workshop on Sunday. Any who, in the past few years I've been getting more and more into the hobby, doing lots of reading to expand my knowledge beyond writing BASIC on my Apple IIe. I've decided that I want to take a shot at constructing a basic computer. Over the years, I've been amassing component parts from estate sales and one particularly lucky estate cleanout. Among other things, I've accumulated thousands of capacitors, resistors, transistors and diodes, hundreds of 7400 series TTL and quite a few microprocessors and support chips. I think I want to base the computer around an 8080. There are the two main reasons I want to go this route: -I have an 8080A and many of the support chips, most of which are of the early gold and white ceramic design. -Ultimately, I want the system to be capable of running CP/M Initially, I'm not looking to make it overly complicated. Ideally, I'd like to have a machine language monitor and TinyBASIC in ROM. I'd also like a serial connection for I/O and a cassette interface for mass storage. If someday I get really ambitious, I might look into things like video hardware and floppy disk mass storage, but I need to take care of the basics first I still need to do a lot more research and study before I start doing things like design and construction, but I would very much appreciate any suggestions or feedback on my plans for this endeavor. Thanks and Happy New Year! Joe Giliberti