Classic Computer Rescue Squad - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Nov 1997

<> 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.

the first BYTE cover was sept 1976 and there was never such article around 
then.  There are two I remember the first was a terminally simple machine
of extreme limitations that illustrated microprogramming (simple TTL) and 
was very low parts count. The other in the Aug and Sept 1985 Bytes called 
EGO and was a 16bit general purpose machine using mostly TTL SSI/MSI (74181 
was the most complex part). <SSI small scale integration 7400, 7474 are 
examples and MSI medium scale integration such as 74181 or complex 
counters.>

Allison