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

[John L Marshall]

COSMOS not Cosmic.
Not only CMOS but Static CMOS could be clocked at 1 Hz if necessary.


Take care
John


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Tillman" <don at till.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -


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