9 Jul
2007
9 Jul
'07
2:45 p.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
I do? That's news to me. I am not sure there _was_ Elektor in the UK in
1974...
The early UK computer projects I know about are : the 'PE Champ' (that's
tue UK magazine 'Practical Electronics') from 1977 (a 4040-based computer
+ 1702 programmer + UV eraser) ; the PE Digi-Cal from 1972 (a 4-function
dsektop calculator built in TTL + a diode-matrix ROM. I don't recall any
general-purpose computer built from TTL in a UK magazine.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but there was a Radio Shack
book called something like 'Understanding Computers'. It was A3 in size,
landscape format with a sprial binding on the top edge IIRC. Green cover.
There was a design in there for a simple 'processor' with 16 locations of
RAM. I suspect it could easily be built from TTL.
-tony
e.stiebler wrote:
No ;-)
Actually, I read this in the german edition in 1974, and Tony knew this
series from elektor, so I assumed it was in the uk edition too ... Try to find somebody with a copy of the 1974
"elector" magazine (uk).
They had a series of articles about a "computer74" which was designed
in '74, and made of 74' series chips. Was a 16 bit thing.
Are you sure about that?