I've promised someone at Elektor a notice when the SC/MP Emulator was ready,
so I can also ask the a reprint of this TTL-system and posibly even get the
permission to put it up on my site. Or ask them to put it up themself ;=)
By the way .......
I know the url of the dutch Elektor site:
http://www.elektuur.nl
(but don't know if they have versions of their site for other languages )
If it wasn't for the existance of this great Electronics magazine I would
never have ended up way deep into computers. I learned a lot from them
so credit is due!
Sipke de Wal
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: SC/MP Elektor Emulator
> > But does anyone remembers the computer Elektuur published before that, in
> > 1974 ?
>
> I don't think there was a UK version of Elektor back then, was there? If
> there was, I never saw it :-(.
>
> That computer sounds like fun, though. There have been very few 'build
> your own CPU' projects in maagazines, unfortunately...
>
> What I do remember, (and have all the articles for) is the (UK) Practical
> Electronics Digi-Cal project, from 1972. This was a 4 function desktop
> calculator built from (mostly) TTL. IIRC, the registers, adder,
> multiplication counter, etc were on plug-in cards and there was a large
> piece of stripboard in the bottom of the machine for a diode-matrix
> control store. So although it wasn't a computer (not user-programmable),
> it came close IMHO.
>
> It's one of those things I've always wanted to build, but getting all the
> chips would be very expensive, and I think I could probably build a small
> general purpose CPU with the same parts (which would probably be more
> fun). Oh, if anyone suggests using the 4-letter F-word [1], I will LART them.
>
> [1] FPGA, of course. Why, what did you think I meant? :-)
>
> -tony
>
Received on Tue Apr 17 2001 - 16:14:13 BST