This is just as much for myself as for any of you that are interested, as it gives me a place to lay out my ambitions for this project and give me a place to write down my ideas. It is by no means a complete technical description, but it will be a more or less complete list of all of my ambitions for this project.

> only use through-hole components
> only use components that are still in production
> be modular and expandable

I would like to stay away from microcontrollers, as a lot of them are more powerful than any 8 bit computers. but I concede that there are certain functionalities that are essentialy impracticable without a dedicated chip (or indeed a microcontroller as a facsimile)

once out of hardware development, I will be developing a BIOS rom that will do a POST sequence and then attempt to load an opperating system from an external source, and defaulting to a simple internal OS if no boot media is present.

The main video card (if there are multiple) and the keyboard are to be assigned to slot 1 and 2 respectively, and may on future mainboard revisions be built into the mainboard by default. but all other hardware can be assigned to any slot.