User talk:JeffreyMeunier

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From Talk:How To Assemble A Desktop PC, it sounds like you are interested in building a computer "the old fashioned way".

What do you think about starting a wikibook to talk about that? Or does one already exist?

Have you seen Harry Porter's Relay Computer ? It runs at 5 Hz. (Not 5 GHz or 5 MHz or 5 KHz). Five cycles per second.

Apparently I'm not the only one crazy enough to think it would be cool to build a CPU out of TTL chips.

I also plan to build something much smaller -- something similar to "Picaro: A Stamp-like Interpreted Controller" by Tom Napier. I hope to end up with something that:
 * can run a standard instruction set (perhaps MMIX or 6502 or 8086 or F21)
 * the entire CPU + external memory + sensors fits in a small model rocket
 * too narrow for a standard 40-pin DIP IC that the original versions of those chips came in
 * too narrow for the "standard" memory chips the original versions of those ICs require (but not too narrow for the serial memory chips I plan to use).
 * also fits a medical diagnosis tool I'm working on.

--DavidCary 01:35, 5 October 2006 (UTC)