13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
9:17 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 15:45 +0000, dave04a at dunfield.com wrote:
In college we wire-wrapped a pdp-8. The final was to repair it in 2
hours after the instructor had made several changes to either the wire
wrappings, chip orientation (hot chips!) or PAL changes. The 2nd
semester was wire-wrapping a 6809-based FLEX system.
That said, the only thing that's really kept me from building machines
(heh, besides time and money!) is the lack of an eprom (or eeprom)
burner.
What do you guys recommend? Are there instructions for PC-driven
burners online somewhere that seem reasonable? If not homebuilt, what's
a reasonable price for one?
Thanks!
Brian
Building a
6809 CUBIX machine does sound fun. I've been looking for a smaller
project I can work with over time; I keep getting older computers (mostly sun
or macintosh) and fixing them up, but then they're cleaned up and running and
I get bored with them.
I'm not a hardware design guy though, and wirewrapping is out for me. I can do
board stuffing and soldering, so if anyone else is going to design a
"reference" pcb that people can go in on and order in some quantity to reduce
costs, I'd be up for that.
Humm.... Soldering chips on a manufactured PCB (that someone else designed)
isn't really "building your own" (although it's a step ahead of what
most people
today consider as "building a computer"). If you really want the experience,
design a system, prototype it and debug it - you will learn TONS more than you
would by soldering chips to a board. It's not nearly as hard as you might think
(start small).