30 Jul
2007
30 Jul
'07
9:44 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jul 30, 2007, at 8:43 PM, woodelf wrote:
Bunk. There is much educational value in even the tiniest of
machines, and even quite a few very practical uses. And let's not lose
sight of the fact that the embedded systems world is filled to
overflowing with machines with considerably less memory than even
that...I routinely design systems around modern processors with a few
dozen bytes of memory.
Indeed. A few months ago, I built a machine on a breadboard. Not
including the breadboard, the price of everything I used, *combined* was
less than $50.
Peace... Sridhar
Hello,
everyone. My name is Joe, I am 17 years old, and live in
central NJ.
I would like to figure out how to build a retro-type computer, either
from
plans or from a kit. I am currently considering the Micro-KIM, as
well as
trying to build a mark-8. Not sure what I want to do. If anyone can
help me
along with this, I would be very appreciative.
Expect to spend a good chunk of $$$ if you want something more than a
toy.
Four thousand and ninety six words of memory was still considered
a large amount of memory in the mark-8 era, and many computers came with
that amount. 10,000x slower than computers of today so don't expect to
have
much computing power, just have losts of fun. ('.~)