17 Jul
2005
17 Jul
'05
9:12 p.m.
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:03:10 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
I started thinking that way (I consider it a 'metaphysical approach')
years ago, starting when the only 'direct' access I had to a computer
was the dial-up ASR-33 connection to a timesharing system from a math
classroom in High School. It's been a long, long. journey to go that
direction with even a small subset of the hardware out there.
Neither do I
Tony. It's not an investment, my retirement fund or
anything else but a hobby. I collect what I do because I like
unique hardware or operating systems and I like to figure out what
makes them
Exactly. I want to understand how these amchines work at as low a
level as possible. For me, the interesting machines have CPUs built
from TTL and small PROMs/PALs, even bit-slice chips (AMD29xx, etc) are
getting too complicated :-). I'll battle through the schematics and
microcode (even produce said schematics if need be) until I understand
what is going on.