[sdiy] Art of electronics computer

[Lanterman, Aaron]

On Jan 9, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Tim Daugard wrote:

> I built a full computer using an 1802 processor chip and the RCA manual for the chip. I had a one year remote tour of duty in Iceland. 

See, I was here working on this and that for like my actual work, but y'all made me look this up on wikipedia and I got totally sucked in. ;)

Wow - what a weird and interesting chip!!! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802

Sixteen registers, and any of them can act as the program counter? I haven't seen anything quite like it.

It has a "SEX" instruction. And I am being totally professional and mature about that.

- Aaron