Need contact information for dkdkk

Scott Stevens chenmel at earthlink.net
Sun Jul 17 15:12:57 CDT 2005


On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:03:10 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:

> > Neither do I Tony.  It's not an investment, my retirement fund or 
> > anything else but a hobby.  I collect what I do because I like
> > unique hardware or operating systems and I like to figure out what
> > makes them 
> 
> Exactly. I want to understand how these amchines work at as low a
> level as possible. For me, the interesting machines have CPUs built
> from TTL and small PROMs/PALs, even bit-slice chips (AMD29xx, etc) are
> getting too complicated :-). I'll battle through the schematics and
> microcode (even produce said schematics if need be) until I understand
> what is going on.
> 

I started thinking that way (I consider it a 'metaphysical approach')
years ago, starting when the only 'direct' access I had to a computer
was the dial-up ASR-33 connection to a timesharing system from a math
classroom in High School.  It's been a long, long. journey to go that
direction with even a small subset of the hardware out there.  



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