On June 24, 2015 1:27:56 AM PDT, Pontus Pihlgren <pon...@update.uu.se> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 06:10:38AM +0000, d...@661.org wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Phil Budne wrote: > > > > >If I were going thru the trouble, I'd want build a TX-0 clone! > > > > I think it would me more interesting to build a replica of a pdp-8 > > straight-eight using significantly-reduced flip chips with > > surface-mount parts. > > > > This exact thing has been on my TODO-list for a while. It will > probably > remain on the TODO-list for some time, but I really want to do it! > > I like to think that you could shrink the computer by, at least, a > factor of four. Probably smaller. > > (make the flip chips double sided and double the function of each flip > > chip). > > /P
I don't think thatt making the flip-chips double-sided will be desirable. I want to shrink the machine and minimize any need to reengineer the backplane. By the way, can the backplane of a straight-eight be realized as a PCB? Replicating that component without that will suck. -- David Griffith d...@661.org
