13 Aug
2006
13 Aug
'06
5:28 p.m.
Vince wrote:
From: "woodelf" <bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca>
I have been toying with the idea of doing a one inch to one foot
(doll house scale) fully functional IMSAI. Clearly, it would be
implemented on some sort of PAL or PIC... the idea would be for
the front panel and a serial port (maybe a video out too (cromemco
Dazzler?)) to be fully functional with a "floppy" drive implemented
on one of the little flash memory packs. I sat in a bar talking
to Hans F. about it once, he really got into it at the time but
maybe the idea lost its luster once the beer wore off.
Don wrote:
One thing that I think *would* be awesome in surface mount,
would be to do a "scale model" based on the straight-8, with
all those little SMT diodes and transistors, and no logic
IC's at all (except possibly some SMT RAM to replace the core
planes) :-). Solder paste and hot air are infinitely easier.
But can you do POPCORN too. :)
Still I would like to see in surface mount ---
tiny Flip/Clips and see how small you can build
a PDP-{Favorate number}.