5 comments

  • SouthSeaDude 1 hour ago
    A Work of art. I remember my dad building a computer using discrete TTL chips in our garage in Auckland. He took like two years and I'm guessing about five people saw it. I would love to see more of these on HN, but most don't get past a few upvotes in the sea of AI stuff.
    • Neywiny 1 hour ago
      Good news is there's still a lot of that on YouTube. I attribute it to Ben Eater but I'm sure there are others who helped or came before
  • roywiggins 2 hours ago
    • B1FF_PSUVM 53 minutes ago
      Ah, so that's where Fred Saberhagen got the gimmick for his first Berserker story - "Without a Thought" / "Fortress Ship", 1963.

      (A spaceman uses a pet that plays with beads to simulate not being temporarily incapacitated by a 'mind beam' attack.)

      Thank you.

  • floxy 3 days ago
    Sweet. About the same number of transistors used in the Intel 4004.
  • Neywiny 1 hour ago
    Would standard HDL synthesis engines be better at this in terms of schematic capture? They could do optimizations that I think if I'm reading right weren't done here