The Homebrew Computer Club

[Mister B.]

Hi All!

I am working on a computer project which may appeal to some of you!

I just started on some of this, and I am looking to see if any people around are interested.

So feel free to stop on by The Homebrew Computer Club

 

[Rubber314Chicken]

is that like buy resistors and transistors and capcitors from radio shack, spend 3 years, and at the end have a vintage style computer? or buy a video card and motherboard kind of computer. becuase I've don't the second, but the first has been my dream.

 

[Mister B.]

It is the first!

I don't consider the second "building" a computer, more like... putting a computer together.

I am designing everything from a processor to hardware I/O... or at least that is the plan... It is a big project.

 

[DJ Stephen]

Looks pretty awesome to me... Good luck with it.

 

[BrynF_UK]

how do you intend to "build" the processor? i mean 90% of me knows it couldnt possibly be on a 65nm scale all packed on a single die, but then again it could be. What sort of scale are talking about? also, i assume at some point you'd be using SMD components, so how would you assemble those to a good standard?

edit: btw, i think thats a great idea overall

 

[Mister B.]

Haha, no not a 45nm although that might be a fun challenge .

Processors don't have to be tiny, the one I am designing will be large... very large, like maybe a foot by a foot in size...

Essentially my goal is to design something with the computational power of maybe a PDP - 6 .

I am starting with designing a machine code, and then I will be working on the architecture more.

Edit: as far as SMDs go, I am not sure. I would like to design all the components, but I have heard about processes of getting these things built into chips professionally... I will look into it when I get a bit further in.

 

[BrynF_UK]

hehehe i thought 65nm would be pushing it but 45nm, you have your standards set high

with regards to the SMD components, I meant more in terms of resistors, capacitors, transistors etc not the IC's

and do you have the facilities to create the PCB boards for the processors and other parts?

 

[dude_se]

wow you have real talent, i wouldnt know where to begin with it.
+1

 

[gibant1]

wow you have real talent, i wouldnt know where to begin with it.
+1

He only has talent if he builds it and gets it working lol.

I did this kind of stuff some 22 years ago. It's a good challenge but it's a long slog.

At the time i was in to it, i made a machine that could do things other "off the shelf" computers couldnt do. So it was worth making.

Make one today......why?

 

[BrynF_UK]

why do people buy kit cars or restore old cars when it would be far cheaper to buy a new one?

Its just something you'd want to do