Tony Duell wrote:
I do? That's news to me. I am not sure there _was_ Elektor in the UK in
1974...
The early UK computer projects I know about are : the 'PE Champ' (that's
tue UK magazine 'Practical Electronics') from 1977 (a 4040-based computer
+ 1702 programmer + UV eraser) ; the PE Digi-Cal from 1972 (a 4-function
dsektop calculator built in TTL + a diode-matrix ROM. I don't recall any
general-purpose computer built from TTL in a UK magazine.
[ snip ]
-tony
I believe that Elektor was publishing in the UK in 1974, but I don't have my
copies at hand to pick the exact date. I know the first and second binders
were full by the end of 1976 (I used to buy the publisher's binders, an icky
green, tacky board binder).
And I read all of them but do not remember any computer projects. And I
would have been extremely interested because I was building an 8 bit TTL
machine at the time.
However, there was the ACS (Amateur Computer Society), an early UK computer
group that designed and built a 16 bit TTL computer. It was well documented
in their Newsletter in the mid-70's. All my copies were stolen, and I've
looked for 20 years to find copies. Any chance of the UK CC'ers having
copies of these newsletters?
Billy