[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Don Tillman]

   > From: "TIm Daugard" <daugard at sprintmail.com>
   > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:56:52 -0600
   > 
   > > > ... having built a computer using an 1802 processor...
   >
   > Not that far wayback actually. My first computer was an RCA 1802
   > Cosmic VIP in 1978.

Wow!  

The RCA 1802 is an important footnote in computer history.  It was a
microprocessor chip with several interesting claims to fame:

  It was the first microprocessor implemented in CMOS
  
  It ran on very little power; you could literallly run it off an
  orange (!!!)

  It was the only processor with a 'SEX' instruction (SEt X register) 

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don at till.com
http://www.till.com