Hi Group,
After years and years of interest in this, way back to the sci am 'Ameteur
Scientist' articles, I am beginning this project.
I
have a unique and amazing resource, I work for a semiconductor company
in test engineering, and we use tons of those little TO-5 Teledyne
relays in our IC test boards. I have scavenged >1000 or so for the
project, so its not going to be a giant machine like Harry Porters:
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/
I
envision a small stack of cards, ALU, instruction decode, sequencer
like Harrys machine. There are a few other relay CPUs on the web, and
it looks like I will follow suit and use semiconductor RAM for program
storage. To be a purist, I suppose I should go core, and I have bought
an array or two off ebay, but the chances of me getting them up and
running right away are nil, but would be the next thing.
Code?
Well
I was thinking the whole thing will be small enough for a tabletop
game, like 3d tic tac toe or such, with a nice stacked up plexiglass of
the game board with red and green neon for the moves. Im anticipating
a nice click click click for the search as it examines the board,
shifts rotates, compares etc for the move checks. my CPU clock will
probably be 25 Hz or more, these little relays are fast. I found some
simple asm here:
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AsmTools/MASM/TicTacToe/ttt1_1.html
I welcome a conversation and dialog with any of similar interests in computing the hard
way...
Randy
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