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From: Charles Richmond on 9 Feb 2010 18:21 Jecel wrote: > On Feb 8, 7:05 am, Gregory Estrade wrote: >> You can add those too : >> http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/12/05/208-oric-in-a-fpga-continued >> http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/03/19/200-thomson-mo5-in-a-fpga >> http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/01/31/198-hector-hrx-in-a-fpga >> >> Someday, I will set up a dedicated page for all these projects :) > > Great! This subject really needs a whole wiki to itself rather than > just a page at a hard to remember address. This is on my "to do" list, > but it will be a while before I get to it. > > -- Jecel "I have discovered a truly wonderful proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to hold it." -- Pierre de Fermat -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+
From: Charles Richmond on 9 Feb 2010 18:26 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > In article <1bd40ftplw.fsf(a)snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>, > pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer) writes: > >> Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> writes: >> >>> Reviving early computing dinosaurs from the surviving DNA is >>> difficult. >> That's a line that deserves to be put above the entrance to a >> computer museum. > > "It's a Unix system! I know this!" -- Jurassic Park > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+
From: Walter Bushell on 9 Feb 2010 18:39 In article <hksqmd$arq$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote: > Jecel wrote: > > On Feb 8, 7:05 am, Gregory Estrade wrote: > >> You can add those too : > >> http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/12/05/208-oric-in-a-fpga-continued > >> http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/03/19/200-thomson-mo5-in-a-fpga > >> http://torlus.com/index.php?2007/01/31/198-hector-hrx-in-a-fpga > >> > >> Someday, I will set up a dedicated page for all these projects :) > > > > Great! This subject really needs a whole wiki to itself rather than > > just a page at a hard to remember address. This is on my "to do" list, > > but it will be a while before I get to it. > > > > -- Jecel > > "I have discovered a truly wonderful proof of this, but the margin > is too narrow to hold it." -- Pierre de Fermat If only someone had provided him with some butter. -- A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
From: Olafur Gunnlaugsson on 10 Feb 2010 05:55 �ann 05/02/2010 18:19, Eric Chomko skrifa�i: > Has anyone created a copy machine of an old system using an FPGA? I > was wondering if it would be possible to take an entire SWTPC 6800 and > compile the schematics and have it run on an FPGA board.? Wouldn't > even have to be the latest Xylinx product, I suspect. There are loads of such projects out there, even a commercial one called C-One "the reconfigurable computer", here: http://www.c64upgra.de/c-one/
From: jmfbahciv on 10 Feb 2010 08:39
Philipp Hachtmann wrote: > Eric Chomko wrote: >> Has anyone created a copy machine of an old system using an FPGA? I > Yes, pdp8 :-) > > But no front panel yet. Just a CPU with BRAM memory and teletype. Passed > the CPU maindecs. > <grin> What do you use for papertapes? We used to make a "tray" [don't remember what we called them] of papertapes which would get shipped with the PDP-8s. They may have been diags, or bootstrap, or something...I can't remember what was written on the labels right now. /BAH |