25 Jun
2015
25 Jun
'15
4:16 a.m.
On June 24, 2015 1:27:56 AM PDT, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 06:10:38AM +0000, dave at
661.org wrote:
I don't think thatt making the flip-chips double-sided will be desirable. I want to
shrink the machine and minimize any need to reengineer the backplane. By the way, can the
backplane of a straight-eight be realized as a PCB? Replicating that component without
that will suck.
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Phil Budne wrote:
This exact thing has been on my TODO-list for a while. It will
probably
remain on the TODO-list for some time, but I really want to do it!
I like to think that you could shrink the computer by, at least, a
factor of four. Probably smaller.
(make the flip chips double sided and double the function of each flip
chip).
/P If I were going thru the trouble, I'd want
build a TX-0 clone!
I think it would me more interesting to build a replica of a pdp-8
straight-eight using significantly-reduced flip chips with
surface-mount parts.