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Developer Creates DIY 8-Bit CPU
MaizeMan writes "Not for the easily distracted: a Belmont software developer's hand-built CPU was featured in Wired recently. Starting with a $50 wire wrap board, Steve Chamberlin built his CPU with 1253 pieces of wire, each wire wrapped by hand at both ends. Chamberlin salvaged parts from '70s and '80s era computers, and the final result is an 8-bit processor with keyboard input, a USB connection, and VGA graphical output. More details are available on the developer's blog."
"(Yes, it is also reproductive.)"
Which is more than you can say for the average /.er.
That would explain why 3.1 was such a crock of shite. Or maybe you're a crock of shite, or just a stupid asshat kraut?
From the article:
"Why did I do all this?" he says. "I don't know. But it has been a lot of fun."
If he'd said almost anything else, I'd have been more impressed. To learn perhaps? To see if I could? Nup. Dunno.
Well in that case according to the article you just spent $1000 and 18 months for nothing? Come on, if you can do this, you can do better at explaining than that!!!
I can just imagine what my wife would think if I launched into doing something like this and couldn't even express why I wanted to do it. (She'd let me, she's great that way but there'd be lots of eye rolling and poking fun at me).
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To have fun is not a good enough reason to do something?
He didn't say he did it to have fun. He just said it was a lot of fun. Not that he set out to do it.
I guess you would be happier if he was just another fat slob who "has fun" by watching American Idol?
No I'd be happier if his people skills came close to matching his geek skills.
This is quite possibly the most asinine comment I have seen on Slashdot in a long time.
Like I said: People skills and geeks.
By the way do you routinely reply to the most asinine comments you see???
This place gives me the shits lately. Things get modded up and down like a yoyo. If you want to be modded up you have to say something popular with the crowd. Kinda like being on American Idol. (Fuck knows that show isn't about singing ability).
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