14 Oct
2000
14 Oct
'00
10:38 p.m.
At 12:57 12/10/00 +0100, John Honniball wrote:
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:46:41 -0400 (EDT) Doug Salot
<doug(a)blinkenlights.com> wrote:
About the same time as the original Altair articles appeared in the US,
Electronics Australia published construction details for a personal
computer that was a cut-down PDP-8. Yes, I know there's not much to an -8
but the EA system had fewer instructions. It's been a while since I read
the articles but suspect the system was made from 7400 series ICs. I do
recall it had 256 words of memory and a LED based front panel.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
| "If God had wanted soccer played in the
| air, the sky would be painted green"
I'm looking for foreign brothers of machines
like the Altair
(microprocessor), Kenbak-1 (discrete logic), Minivac (clocked relays),
GENIAC (rotary switches), etc. I'm also looking for pointers to old (say,
1940-1970) electronic hobbyist mags outside of the US.
UK Magazines (and published constructional projects):
Practical Wireless
Practical Electronics (UK101 with 6502 CPU in 1979)
Everyday Electronics
Electronics Today International (6800 machine in 1977)
Hobby Electronics
Wireless World
Elektor (Junior Computer, SC/MP I think)
Personal Computer World (Early issues included electronics)