What is the point of building an old computer?My personal motivations -I guess other people had had their own- are basically these two: For one part, I wanted to traverse that frontier that microprocessors represent when we see them as "black boxes": I wanted to write software for a hardware that I truly know up to the wire level. For the other part, I wanted to honor the 1970's computer technology by designing a computer similar to those, build it and -what is more important- to use it for solving problems in the same fashion they did in the past... That will be like time-traveling to the 70s, I guess!
So this project has a lot of cultural as well as technical, hence the severe historical constraints that I have imposed to my self when designing the minicomputer.
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Homebuilt CPUs WebRing
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David Brooks, the designer of the Simplex-III homebrew computer, has founded the Homebuilt CPUs Web Ring. To join, drop David a line, mentioning your page's URL. He will then add it to the list.
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Project start date: May 13 of 2009
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