26 Jan
1999
26 Jan
'99
7:32 a.m.
> Stop
being a nay-sayer and just do it, Derek! That's what college is for.
> You could win a Haggle Online Best-of-Show award this year at the VCF with
> it!
You already gave me that incentive about three
times, and both of those
ideas were FAR easier. Well, building a replica of Zuse's Z-3 may not be
easier. But my Apple ][ programming ideas are easier, and bringing my
Marchant is MUCH easier. So why should I bother doing the difficult stuff,
if the reward is the same? :)
A Z3 replik ? Only functional (al relays, but modern part) or
an exact copy ? As for the functional replica it's just some
work and an awfull lot of money for the parts (my guess, some
8000 USD), but easyer than most _exact_ emulations of complex