> As for robotics control or smart robots etc the SAM motherboard is near ideal! > To run it only requires the +5Volt supply and an I/O pcb could be designed > that > fits into the second drive plug and programs loaded via the MIDI/NET or TAPE.
If you're going to go to that much trouble then I'd have thought that you may as well blow your own EPROM, or build your own z80 SBC and use the SAM as a development tool... and download your assembly code into EEPROM or something. -Andrew Gale

