A major re-design - February 28, 2018 | Details

Well, the Brainwarp panel using magnetic placed instruction cards has hit a major snag. The card contacts do not make contact as consistently as I need so a re-do is needed.

I have come up with a back-plane with edge card connectors that will be used for the instruction cards. All while still using cardboard and paper fastener construction. Lots of hot melt glue is used for this build...

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Well, here is the finished Back-plane with 16 four bit ROM slots. Next is to wire up some more ROM cards and the address logic board and it's all set.

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Morning.Star wrote 03/02/2018 at 10:09

BrainF*k in Morse, think about this for a moment...
Its a computing network that can use human processors AND electronic ones simultaneously. [Using carboard]

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 03/02/2018 at 10:50

Yeah.... now I agree with David. I'm scarin' myself ;-)

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David H Haffner Sr wrote 03/02/2018 at 12:16

See I told U there was something scaryy about all this!

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 03/01/2018 at 00:40

I was talking with Jez Morningstar and at the slower speed of IO I could generate Morse code as an output then have my netbook read the code or just copy the code in my head as I usually do. With an actual monitor then perhaps a Slow Scan image could be sent to a long persistence ham radio monitor from the old days :-)

It's either that or stick with the led display .

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 03/01/2018 at 00:45

Another thought was to use an older electric typewriter to patch into :-) kind of like an older teletype like the model 55 I once had.

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David H Haffner Sr wrote 03/02/2018 at 16:50

I have an idea for the LED type monitor, I used them once for a project a few years ago, they are very small but I'd say in a matrix of about 100 and since they have a clear window, they would project a clearer image. Here is the link to where I got them @ Mouser - http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/859-LTPL-C034UVH365

High Power LEDs - Single Color HIGH PWR UV 365nm
Length: 3.5 mm
Width: 3.5 mm
Height: 2.15 mm

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David H Haffner Sr wrote 02/28/2018 at 22:23

Doc, UR scarin' me man!

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Dr. Cockroach wrote 02/28/2018 at 22:32

Think S100 in a S5 package :-) Center to center is 3/4 "

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David H Haffner Sr wrote 02/28/2018 at 22:43

RU talking like SD card slots? Because that is waaaayyyy too inventive...:)

Oh, I also wanted to ask if you would consider making a cardboard monitor?

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A major re-design - February 28, 2018

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