> I must say
> that I love your idea of 'rolling your own' vacuum tubes though.
> I would have many beers with someone that dedicated!

I proposed that to my physics teacher (when I was ~ 13y). He laughed
loud and sarcastically and said that I should use water valves instead.
He was the kind that (even way back then) liked to use highly integrated
one-purpose chips. In frustration I partly switched myn interests to
chemistry, which had a more adventurous teacher.

More recently I dreamed about building my own CPU from all those RAMs,
EPROMs and '245 chips lying around, porting gcc to it and running Linux.
But realising that 10 MIPS is almost impossible to reach that way (1 is
more likely) spoiled the fun.

Wouter van Ooijen

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