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Hand-soldered CPU has 42,000 transistors, weighs half a ton
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It is currently on display at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge.
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Re: Hand-soldered CPU has 42,000 transistors, weighs half a ton
Been following this for a bit - its a pretty cool project and a great tool for learning about how CPUs work.
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Makes my home soldered Nascom 1 with 2000 solder joints look like a crystal set ! ;)
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Worst tetris player ever.
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Re: Hand-soldered CPU has 42,000 transistors, weighs half a ton
He clocks it down to 1hz, not to 1khz :)
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AMD's next CPU? (I kid I have an FX 8350, good chip IMO)
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Re: Hand-soldered CPU has 42,000 transistors, weighs half a ton
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theleader
I think it's a wind up!
Nope, its definitely plugged into the wall...
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Re: Hand-soldered CPU has 42,000 transistors, weighs half a ton
But can it run Crysis?? .. Er .. no it can't.
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I guess I'm allowed to spam here, so if this interests you, see also http://jonatron.me/ for my comparatively tiny PDP-11 Simulator.
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He's absolutely terrible at tetris though...
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Re: Hand-soldered CPU has 42,000 transistors, weighs half a ton
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Originally Posted by
g8ina
Makes my home soldered Nascom 1 with 2000 solder joints look like a crystal set ! ;)
See my system :)
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Re: Hand-soldered CPU has 42,000 transistors, weighs half a ton
I've always wondered how you manage to post on the forums with that