Replicas - was Re: *** Ideas needed for developing interactive

[vrs]

From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset at amanda.spole.gov>
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 10:29:49PM -0600, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> > So what about memory? Transistor too?
> > A PDP-8/S would be a good model to pick from. Note you need a lot of SMT
> > diodes resistors too.
>
> There are approximately 1000 transistors in a PDP-8/S (plus lots of diodes
> and resistors and the core stack).  Even with SMT, that's a lot of square
> footage.

I'm not so sure it would be impossibly huge.  If one imagined a transistor
and associated passives requiring a square 0.5" on a side, then a 16" square
board would have room for 32x32=1024 such elements.  That seems large enough
to be really impressive (without being undisplayable).

Or am I missing something?

    Vince