Note this is Open Source Hardware proper[0].
0. https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/01/28/yellowstone-goes-op...
Highly recommend BMoW projects / products.
I've got a Yellowstone and a Floppy Emu. They are great. The Floppy Emu is particularly noteworthy because of the functionality Steve has added since its release (WOZ image support, for example).
I’d love to have a reason to pick up an 80’s microcomputer. I had a TI-99/4A but could never afford the peripheral expansion box. I could now though, but what would I do with it?
I had the TI but what I really wanted was an Atari 800 or Apple II. I really wish I could think of something to do with one of these. I’ve thought about getting one and writing some journaling software for it to give me a reason to sit down at the console every day or two, but then I remember how awful those old keyboards were and generally how unpleasant these machines were.
Probably best to leave my nostalgia intact and stick to modern computers.
Does the existence of this project imply that it's harder to find a drive controller than it is to find actual drives ?
(2017). Perhaps this is a better link since the controller is in fact available commercially since that post:
https://www.bigmessowires.com/yellowstone/
Here's a link to all the blog posts discussing its development:
https://www.bigmessowires.com/category/yellowstone/?order=as...