12 Mar
2003
12 Mar
'03
5:52 p.m.
From: "Heinz Wolter"
<h.wolter(a)sympatico.ca>
Parts?- not quite so trivial to find. 8008's go on ebay often - but do
they
work?
Though you might salvage a plastic 8008 from an 11/34 or pdp8a (??)
'New' and working 8008's are not that hard to come by. I recently bought 15
of them for a project (http://www.jkearney.com/tiny8demo/) and could get
more if necessary. Not cheap, though.
If you were building a totally modern work alike - an
all fpga solution -
cpu+rom+ram
would be more interesting than yet another 8008 using
LS/HC TTL and CMOS
static rams.
8008 on a PLD anyone?
This would be a fun project. I did a design (but haven't built) of a Mark-8
using an FPGA and an 8008. The 8008 could be omitted and implemented in the
FPGA, but I think it's fun to use the actual old processors:
http://www.jkearney.com/8008/uMark8.htm
Jim