27 Nov
2007
27 Nov
'07
4:05 a.m.
Subject: Re: Teaching kids about computers...
From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:47:21 -0700
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Real, use PDP-8 it's simple enough and not too many instructions.
So, I propose that programming be taught first in
machine language,
then assembly. That's how I learned to do it.
Real or fictional machine? Cheers,
Chuck
PS. I bet with the right fictional machine, it could be a
easy step to building hardware. 
28 Nov
28 Nov
6:34 a.m.
PISC Pitiful instruction set computer.
:-)
A varient of TOY idea. There are others inlcusing a
4bitter.
This is totally doable. I once took a computer hardware design course
where our term project was to design and build a small 4-bit computer -
CPU (we were allowed an ALU chip), RAM (we used a "register file" -
just RAM with 4 bits each of address and data), and very rudimentary
I/O (switches and lights).
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