20 Oct
1999
20 Oct
'99
5:10 a.m.
Well the 'straight 8' is about 2.5' tall, the PDP-5 is a bit taller but it
has its flip chips mounted vertically in the rack as opposed to back to back.
I don't doubt that you could fit an 8080 into a single 5' tall 19" rack.
--Chuck
At 01:40 AM 10/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
Say someone were to home-build a CPU from scratch using
only individual
components, no ICs only modern descrete(?) components. How big would the
CPU be? For comparison lets say it would be an 8080 clone. Any guesses?
pbboy