building my own relay computer

[Brent Hilpert]

On 2015-Feb-13, at 1:40 PM, Tom Sparks wrote:

> I've been bouncing around the idea of building my own relay computer
> 
> * I have mostly inspired by the TIM project[1] and Harry Porter's Relay
> Computer[2]
> * I am looking at having a limited number registers like the 6502 or 6800
> * the computer is going to be Harvard architecture based
> 
> I wondering have any of use done anything like this?
> 
> [1] http://www.northdownfarm.co.uk/rory/tim/
> [2] http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/



I've examined and written about (and done some limited implementation of) Simon, which is Harvard architecture.
	 http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/simon/index.html

Due to it's limitations I haven't been all that enthused about fully constructing it however.
It could perhaps be expanded into something more interesting.

There's another relay computer design and implementation here which looks interesting:
	http://www.electronixandmore.com/projects/relaycomputertwo/index.html