[sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:27:15 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0402021122440.8862 at atbode100.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

> > > Add some shift registers, a little bit of memory and ROM and you get an
> > > entire computer including tape I/O and video output :)
> >
> > Sounds like a Sinclair ZX-81 to me! ;O)
> 
> Actually, the ZX80. The ZX81 had all those shift registers glued into the
> Ferranti ULA :)

Ah, you've just found out that yes, I haven't had a single Sinclair product!

> > I really like the Don Lancasters advice to use a second CPU for the video-
> > scanning to solve the problem of the expensive CRT controllers... ;O)
> > Doing that would let you have a full CPU for processing. Oh happy days! ;O)
> 
> When I stumbled across "The Cheap Video Cookbook" I just had to get a copy
> back in 2001.

I should get one too I guess. Just for the obscureness! ;O)

I got myself the CMOS and TTL handbooks just for that reason. Hmm... time to
log onto Amazon again... thanks for reminding me! Any other tips? ;O)

> > Let's look at modern OO-problems
> 
> Yeah, OO is really a problem }:->

Yeap! I couln't agree more... but if we got to live with it, let's make it work
really well then... (Actually likes the ideas behind the Objective-C but hasn't
found a good explanation of C++).

> > I don't know Oliver Bartels or de.sci.electronics (assuming it is in
> > German).
> 
> You might know the product he's most famous for: the Bartels autorouter.

Nope, no clue still.

Cheers,
Magnus - notorious C-programmer... when not doing VHDL or something...