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[sniperviper21]

its a simple calculator that barely out does a abbicas, dont talk it up lol

 

[Neodude1123201]

I'd like to see you build one guys, go foothead for giving it a go!

I built a 4-bit adder to get a feel for the project. I'm gonna build an 8-bit computer if paypal ever fixes my account.

If you could make that run DOS, that would be a wet dream. Also, what plans are you following? I'd LOVE to build something like this.

 

[sniperviper21]

I built one in college several times.

Though we all built 16 bit adders using gate IC's
and we all hooked them together an used the whole classes to calculate PI to the millions decimal.

it was about 2 hours time XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZP7p7Zpe4&feature=related

we did stuff kinda like this for extra credit using PLC's and RLL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yntpJwNC6N8&feature=more_related
I hate spaghetti wires :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bs_mFELxWY&feature=related
is that your end goal kinda Foothead?

 

[Neodude1123201]

I've never actually known how a CPU Works.

So a CPU Works with Transistors, a transistor controls voltage (Input Pin,Control Pin,OutputPin?) and the flow of electricity? So with various layouts of transistors, you create gates with which the electricity flows through creating a 'calculator' of sorts that works in binary? Once the Transistors have generated binary, How does it output? How do you program this, do you 'program' it by the layout you set using the various gates?

I'm assuming that you simply have voltage coming into the Input pin, your inputs (The User) come in through the control pin and the output comes out of the output pin?

I'd love to build a home built computer to play a tune, or display on an LCD or something. Something useful.

 

[foothead]

I wouldn't call it a rig, tbh. Project, but not rig.

It's a joke...

its a simple calculator that barely out does a abbicas, dont talk it up lol

The completed version will be much more than a calculator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bs_mFELxWY&feature=related
is that your end goal kinda Foothead?

If you pay attention, he is actually feeding commands from another computer. That appears to only be a part of his CPU.

Mine'll be more like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-omFP_G57U&feature=related

I've never actually known how a CPU Works.

So a CPU Works with Transistors, a transistor controls voltage (Input Pin,Control Pin,OutputPin?) and the flow of electricity? So with various layouts of transistors, you create gates with which the electricity flows through creating a 'calculator' of sorts that works in binary? Once the Transistors have generated binary, How does it output? How do you program this, do you 'program' it by the layout you set using the various gates?

I'm assuming that you simply have voltage coming into the Input pin, your inputs (The User) come in through the control pin and the output comes out of the output pin?

I'd love to build a home built computer to play a tune, or display on an LCD or something. Something useful.

It's kinda hard to explain how it's programmed, but I'll try. The commands will be entered one at a time. Each command will then be toggled into memory. When the run command is given, it will load the first command, run it, store the answer in memory, then load the next command. and so on.

It really won't do much useful, it's mainly so I have something to keep me occupied.

If you could make that run DOS, that would be a wet dream. Also, what plans are you following? I'd LOVE to build something like this.

DOS is so far beyond this thing's capabilities... Even the simplest DOS-compatible CPU would require thousands of relays to run, and it only operates at like 5-10Hz, so it'd still be pretty useless.

I'm not using any specific plans, though the architecture is based off another relay computer I found on the internet. there's really no need to reinvent the wheel on this one.





I'm having serious issues with my computer's parallel port. In EPP and ECP mode, pins 1-13 are all +5v, and 14-25 are all ground. WTF?

 

[Grantofhell]

Yes, Foothead - I knew it was a joke. I suppose I should have added the proper "lol" to my post so it was to be understood we were on the same page.

 

[foothead]

oh lol.


Can someone explain this?

I wanted to go see how this bing rewards thing worked, but that's all I get.

 

[The_Lucas]

Uber FAIL lol. That's all I got

 

[foothead]

The funny thing is that it worked after I installed SP3. I thought it might've been a typo, but it says SP2 in several places.

 

[The_Lucas]

Hmm, very weird.
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