Silent Q

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How to Build a Working Digital Computer

| June 23, 2011

Picked up an interesting book today: A quick Google search shows the full text is apparently scanned online in a few places, but I felt compelled to pick up an actual printed version: The copyright date is 1967 and 1968. Well before the Intel 4004, which is acknowledged as the world’s first microprocessor, and still [...]

MicroKIM-1 6532 expansion

| June 9, 2011

I decided to pick up one of Vince’s 6532 expansion boards for my MicroKIM. The kit arrived in quick time: Very easy to build, even I can’t go wrong with that, and 15 minutes later: I was verifying traces, and I noticed that the GND of the 74LS04 inverter was actually not connected. I sent [...]