The parts have finally arrived! Well, at least most of them have as they sent me these plastic pieces instead of 74ls377s as they were supposed to...
Luckily, I had some spare ones as I had ordered some previously because I thought that they would be a useful thing to keep around and it turned out that I was correct! Anyway, here is the blank slate: a four piece breadboard which should be about the perfect size for a circuit of this magnitude.
It took quite a while to figure out this layout, and it is probably not the most efficient setup ever, but it seems to minimize the length of the bus wires that I will need to run.
The top blank space is for the LCD display and the other output devices, the middle area is for the microcode ROMs/Program ROMs, and the clock oscillator will go in the bottom empty slot.
I have put in a placeholder for the LCD and labeled the ROMs but this has taken quite a lot of time, most of it being consumed by stripping all of those power connectors so this is all I will be doing today.