9 Nov
1997
9 Nov
'97
12:54 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Ward Donald Griffiths III once stated:
Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
I remember in late 85, Byte having two articles about a guy that built his
own computer (CPU from scratch no less). Ah for Byte to have such articles
again ...
-spc (Once Steve Ciarcia stopped writing, I stopped reading ... )
Ehehe... We should build a computer from discrete components, just to
operate one. And connect it to the Internet. Of course, we'd never
finish in out lifetimes, and it would fill a room, but it would be awful
cool!
Does anybody but me remember the Byte cover (1976, I think) of a 4-bit
computer built from transistors, diodes, etc. and wire? (No boards or
anything). There was a followup picture in the magazine some months
later after the cat had knocked it off the desk.