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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. Old school by Zakabog · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wasn't around for this sort of stuff but wasn't this the sort of thing Radio Shacks customers were doing 25+ years ago?

    1. Re:Old school by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Err, I may have confused this with another story - from here. If I have, sorry.

      Neverthless, it seems this story is, however, not unique even in the modern day.

  2. Homebrew CPU runs Minix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's one that running Minix: http://www.homebrewcpu.com/

  3. Reminds me of the one by Jim+Buzbee · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reminds me of the one my brother built here except my brother's computer runs Minux.