About Me!
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I started my career in computing programming on an early minicomputer called the
Molecular. This was all in machine code, with machines covered in
lights and switches!
The picture is me using nasty MS stuff! (Notice coffee, cigs, calculator, and a mobile phone!) |
I have always been fascinated with computer hardware, but not particularly the micro-processor variety! I prefer processors where the registers and accumulators exist on a printed circuit board in the form of individual transistors, or at the most very simple TTL gates.
These pages offer some information on two particular machines: The BCL Molecular and the DEC PDP8
Anyone in the UK looking to dispose of a machine like this should email me straight away. Dropping a machine of this vintage into a skip is sacrilegious! This era of computer hardware developed almost all of the techniques seen today in modern machines.
Click here for random collection notes