Keelan Lightfoot <keelanlightfoot@gmail.com>:
> The theme behind my idea is to avoid any level of on-die integration.
> I might be creeping into the territory of art, in that I want to
> create something that gives an idea of the amount of 'actual'
> electronics that go into a typical digital device.

Are you trying to find discrete equivalents of what goes into a modern chip=
,
or is it OK to use technology appropriate to the era when transistors were
actually used to build computers?

In the latter case, a "proper" transistorized computer would have used ferr=
ite
core memory for rewritable nonvolatile storage, and either a diode matrix o=
r
"rope memory" (like the Apollo spacecraft computers) for one-time programma=
ble
memory.

-- Dave Tweed
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