At 08:41 22/04/99 -0400, allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
However with 256Words of core working building a simple
TTL machine around
it would be of some educational value. It is however snough space to run
practical demonstration programs.
There was a construction project in a local electronics mag (Electronics
Australia) around the same time as the original Altair articles describing
how to build a computer closely based on the PDP-8. This system had 256
words of memory. I should dig up the articles and this would probably be a
neat starting point for a CDS (Core Demonstration System). Please note: CDS
is a trademark of HOC2 (Huw's Old Computer Company - cf EMC2) :-)
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