LOL

> > 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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