4 Dec
2008
4 Dec
'08
1:37 p.m.
I cna think of one good reason why _I'd_ bother :
I prefer to think in terms of AND gates, flip-flops and shift registers
to assembly language. I find it easier to debug a board of logic than a
program. And I'd findit simpy more fun to sodler and wire-wrap than to
type.
This makes no sense commerically, I agree. If I was going to make this as
a product, or part of one, I'd use a microcontroller. Period. But classic
computign is a _hobby_ for me, and darn it, I get to do it the way I
enjoy. And if that means a board of TTL chips. that's my business.
Tony, it MAY be possible, but I'm hard pressed to NOT believe in a PS/2
to parallel converter using only TTL chips...it CAN be done, but would use
TONS of TTLs :(