building my own relay computer

Tom Sparks tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au
Fri Feb 13 16:56:12 CST 2015


On 14/02/15 08:20, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> On 2015-Feb-13, at 1:40 PM, Tom Sparks wrote:
> 
>> I've been bouncing around the idea of building my own relay computer
>>
>> * I have mostly inspired by the TIM project[1] and Harry Porter's Relay
>> Computer[2]
>> * I am looking at having a limited number registers like the 6502 or 6800
>> * the computer is going to be Harvard architecture based
>>
>> I wondering have any of use done anything like this?
>>
>> [1] http://www.northdownfarm.co.uk/rory/tim/
>> [2] http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/
> 
> 
> 
> I've examined and written about (and done some limited implementation of) Simon, which is Harvard architecture.
> 	 http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/simon/index.html
that website looks familiar, thats it, the memory core write up
bookmarked and added to my wget queue :)

> 
> Due to it's limitations I haven't been all that enthused about fully constructing it however.
> It could perhaps be expanded into something more interesting.
> 
> There's another relay computer design and implementation here which looks interesting:
> 	http://www.electronixandmore.com/projects/relaycomputertwo/index.html
> 
I did bookmark and download electronixandmore website

tom


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