[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] Matt Draisey: Magic 1

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Author: Matt Draisey
Username: Matt Draisey (bas2-windsor12-1128533459.dsl.bell.ca)
Subject: Magic 1
Forum: WUUG Talk
Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,74,74#msg-74
Approved: Yes

This HP engineer, Bill Buzbee, designed and built a whole computer using a CPU of his own design consisting of 70s-80s era VLSI logic chips wire wrapped together.  What's more he wrote an assembler and linker, ported a C compiler and Minix OS and has hooked the computer to the internet.  Amazing.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5804062141.html
http://www.homebrewcpu.com/