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The 8-Bit Computer That's Been Built By Hand

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-enough-bits-for-mario dept.

nk497 writes "Forget snapping a few components into a motherboard — programming enthusiast Jack Eisenmann has made his own PC from scratch. His Duo Adept, as he's named it, features 64KB of main memory, 256 bytes of RAM and, in total, 263 lines of code for his homemade OS. Sure, it can't run Crysis, but it does run a game he's written himself."

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  1. Re:Old school by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 3, Funny

    TTL chips? Luxury! When I was a lad we had to use coconuts and vine to fashion NAND gates.

  2. 2 Memes With One Stone by Scarletdown · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have to ask (since at the time I am writing this, no one else has done so yet)...

    Does it run Linux?

    And if it does, just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things.

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  3. Re:Old school by Jeremi · · Score: 4, Funny

    A thousand monkeys standing around a box of parts would "accidentally" build a computer

    Ah, I see you are familiar with the TRS-80.

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