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From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: OT: how big would it be?
>> BTW: I am building an Intel 4004 or possible an 8008 with flip chip
modules.
>> Will tell you when I start it.
>
>Those parts were in the 3000-6000 transistor bracket. I'd expect an 8008
>in flip chips would be bigger than a straight-8 (that's larger than an
>8S). Why? The 8008 is register rich compared to the PDP-8 series and
>for every bit in a register thats a flip chip (8008 is about 45 bits of
>registers alone and then there are the FFs in the state logic). This
>thing is going to be HUGE. The 4004 would be less ambitious but there are
>still a lot of FFs in that part.
I am going to impliment the instruction set serially... Hmm.. wonder where
I've seen that before?
I have run out of transistor/old computers to restore so I rfeally liked the
8/S and am going to do some fun stuff with a few hundred flip chips.
john
>
>Allison
>
Received on Wed Oct 20 1999 - 09:41:34 BST