[sdiy] Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

[Jaco Sloof]

Hi Rainer,

Well, on a side note..
I'm also reading a book right now, which is about digital circuits.
But here's the catch, it's from 1982 (that's when I was 1 year old).
It goes all the way from half-adders, to flipflop memory elements, to
a 12 bit, 16 command, 2k memory computer! It is from this book that I
really began to understand assembler mnemonics.

I absolutely love that kind of stuff.

greets, Jaco (now where's that pile of 4000 series) Sloof

--- Rainer Buchty <rainer at buchty.net> wrote:

> >Oh, i get it! You're all from the middle ages... ;)
> 
> You know, in lectures and seminars I usually joke about the "stone age"  
> when referring to late 70s to mid 80s, i.e. the time of DIY-kit and
> early home computers. The "kids" just can't imagine what it means to
> have a single kB at their hands which, even worse, has also to serve as
> video memory, when they have multi-megabytes just as *cache* memory.
> 
> Heck, we even got PhD students lately whose first machines were x86 PCs 
> and who just don't know that there was a time when not everything was 
> x86 and mainly Microsoft.
> 
> So for my own part, I start feeling *very* old when it comes to that.
> 
> Rainer (33)
> 
> 


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