12 Sep
2004
12 Sep
'04
4:29 p.m.
From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov>
On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 10:29:49PM -0600, Ben Franchuk
wrote:
I'm not so sure it would be impossibly huge. If one imagined a transistor
and associated passives requiring a square 0.5" on a side, then a 16" square
board would have room for 32x32=1024 such elements. That seems large enough
to be really impressive (without being undisplayable).
Or am I missing something?
Vince
So what about memory? Transistor too?
A PDP-8/S would be a good model to pick from. Note you need a lot of SMT
diodes resistors too.
There are approximately 1000 transistors in a PDP-8/S (plus lots of diodes
and resistors and the core stack). Even with SMT, that's a lot of square
footage.