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> Biggest contenders are the original Macintosh (And Apple Lisa), the Commodore Amiga series of computers (With varying generations of the 68000), the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, the Neo-Geo AES, Plexus workstations... and the Jaguar.

Strange that they mention almost all well-known 68k machines, but forget the (extremely relevant in this case) Atari ST...



I basically wrote them down as they came to my mind, but I agree. I'm still waiting to find a decently priced Falcon 030...


> Falcon 030

Get a TT and make it your daily driver with Atari Unix.

About the list, the 68000 and its descendants ended up in most of the Unix/technical workstation and small mini computer market before everyone moved to RISC (Sun to SPARC, HP to PA, and so on).


Back in the day my friends who did this ran NetBSD and not Atari's Unix, which was expensive and unsupported.


Good luck finding a TT030 cheaper than a Falcon030...


I have one in here in good shape I'll sell you. Bonus if you're in Canada to simplify shipping or pickup.


Actually interested if you're okay with shipping it across the sea.


If that doesn't work out, I'm in Ireland and also interested.


The Sega Saturn might also qualify, as its sound subsystem has a 68000 with 512 KiB of RAM. Running Linux on it might be trickier though.


Also, honourable mention for the Sinclair QL (though it was a 68008 machine).




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