9 Jun
2020
9 Jun
'20
11:53 p.m.
Funny how wetware memory works. I have that issue of Popular
Electronics somewhere in my collection and would have seen the
article as I would read it cover to cover after it arrived in mail.
While looking at the issue again, remembered reading next article on
PLL's so probably read the Cyclops article, decided that $25 was way
too much for one chip and never bothered. However, I do have a lot
of old RAM chips so might give it a try some day. What I do recall
about that era that a 1024 bit SRAM cost about $10 in Canada. (That
was in days when we made a profit selling beer for $0.25 at TGIF).
Boris Gimbarzevsky
I think a Stanford AI lab has one in a display case.
Any others out there?
It was supposedly "commercial" but I don't even remember ever seeing
an ad for the Cyclops from Cromemco and I had a really good stash of
Cromemco literature and hardware.
I do remember the BYTE article where you pop the top off of a DRAM
chip to make a Camera but that was 1983-ish, nearly a decade after
the Cromemco Cyclops was supposedly "commercial". In the discussions
I had in the 80's none of us seemed to know about the Cromemco
Cyclops having preceded it.
Tim N3QE