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The brand-new old computer™ you can build yourself
Get your retro on and build yourself a brand new, state-of-the-art, forty-year-old computer! The Really Old-School Computer™ (rosco_m68k®) is a simple yet powerful 16/32-bit computer with a base spec that compares with home computers of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Full kits available now from just $164.99!
Fun and easy to build
The rosco_m68k® is designed from scratch to be easy to build and fun to hack on. With an exclusively through-hole design, our four-layer board means there's plenty of space and no fiddly bits, and we only use high-quality modern PCB fabrication techniques to ensure that the boards we ship are a dream to solder.
Even if you're a beginner, by following just a few simple tips from our comprehensive build documentation you'll have a great time putting your new computer together.
All you need to get started is a soldering iron and some solder (we like lead-free, 1mm diameter).
Designed for hacking
Once you've built your new computer, our software makes it really easy to start hacking.
Connect to your PC or Mac via a USB to Serial converter* and set up a terminal emulator (we like Minicom), and you're ready to go. The in-built serial bootloader* and tons of demo and sample programs let you give your new machine a run as soon as the solder is dry.
Building code for the rosco_m68k couldn't be easier thanks to our Homebrew tap** that contains the whole toolchain, ready to go.
And just like the hardware, all our code is open source - you can find it on GitHub.
* Optional extra, select during purchase.
** Supports macOS® or Linux®. Windows® supported via a virtual machine or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Additional software installation required.
rosco_m68k® is a registered trademark of the Really Old-School Company Limited in the United Kingdom.