Actually, I built it from discreet components (transistors for you
youngsters!).
not much memory, and not very fast, and only machine language (0's and 1's)
for programming purposes, but it worked!
Dave
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From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Steve Weber
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:47 AM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
From scratch?
So.... How many wafers do you get from your home grown silicon
crystals? Are you using a Meyer+Berger diamond I.D. slicer? What
kind of polisher? Dicer? How many pentiums (pentii?) from each wafer
and what is your etching process? etc. etc. etc.
Steve
>Actually, some of us do - from scratch!
>
>Dave K5WNV
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com
>[mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Steve Weber
>Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 9:01 PM
>To: tentec@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long
>
>
>Golly Gee!
>
>You built your own computer??? Really??? You went to the beach,
>brought home a bucket of sand and made your own chips? Mined and
>smelted your own copper? Designed and built your own microprocessor?
>Mined your own iron ore, made steel, rolled it into sheets to make
>the chassis?
>
>Or did you plug a bunch of prefabricated subassemblies into a
>prefabricated motherboard, mount them into a prefabricated case with
>a prefabricated power supply.
>
>Lighten up already. None of us build our own computers.
>
>Sheesh!
>
>
>> > Don't stop...since we can't talk about the Orion firmware
>>> on the Ten Tec
>>> reflector...we can bash computers!
>>
>>ok.
>>
>>> Yep, it was Gates who once said that...I think that was >
>>> way before there
>>> was an orange..er..an apple...
>>
>>Apple existed way before gates.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hmmmm...where can I get some Apple software that will run
>>> 385 servers
>>> spread
>>> across the country...that will NOT fail?
>>
>>Try BEA.
>>
>>
>>And, oh yes, don't try to have those windows
>>servers actually try to do something other than
>>the occasional file sharing. They will crash.
>>I have seen systems that repeatedly crashed
>>windows (NT) because they could not service
>>requests fast enough, then recompile those
>>systems for unix without one line change
>>and have the unix boxes run at 35% cpu
>>utilization. Windows is ok if you don't
>>actually use it, or need to make changes.
>>maybe.
>>
>>
>>
>>>What COM ports? Only reason we
>>> need
>>> COM ports now is to run ham software.
>>
>>So, how is the support guy gonna connect?
>>Most sites still need to have the warm
>>fuzzy feeling that they can hang up the
>>telephone rather then opening their network
>>up for remote connects.
>>
>>
>>> OH yea, I've been running WinXPpro
>>> on
>>> my three home made PC's also for three years with NO
>>crashes.
>>
>>I refer you to my earlier comment about actually using it.
>>
>>> By the
>>> way,
>>> did you build your MAC?
>>
>>No, I didn't have to.
>>What exactly did you actually build?
>>
>>this is fun..
>>
>>73,
>>bill w6eet
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