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Silicon-free computer on vacuum and cold-cathode tubes with pure brainfuck instruction set

artem-kashkanovArtem Kashkanov 03/31/2018 at 07:421 Comment

My friend found very interesting schema. Wneh we do not use any special counting devices - e.g. neon tiratrons or dekatrons, but counting directly on nixie. Want to try this schema.

It look like as classic schema on tiratrons, but here we have built-in tiratrons in nixie tube. Very interesting and compact... But use diodes... So not acceptable for silicon-free project.

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roelh wrote 03/31/2018 at 08:13 point

Hi Artem,

If I were you, I wouldn't bother if there are solid state diodes. You could build the first transistor-free tube computer (but with diodes) and have eternal fame. After that is done, you could make a version without diodes....

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