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Got my hands on a Geode GX1 board, apparently out of a wise sx0.
Sadly has a weird 64MB DOM, it's ide but with a custom connector.
ISOLINUX & GRUB hand very early on, not enough memory for NetBSD boot cd, 128MB.
Openbsd, freedos and winCE work well.
Can run DOOM smoothly.
Crappy BIOS.
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Throwback to last year, when I built this custom 9-bit computer from scratch using an FPGA board.
Why? Mostly to see if I could do it. I had the good fortune to be part of several hardware teams designing computers when I worked for Digital Equipment Corp, but never directly in the CPU group. So I wanted to try CPU design out for myself finally, and see if I remembered any of those classes from way back in college. (I didn't as it turned out, had to re-learn a bunch of stuff)
Why 9 bits? To be weird. And also, because it prevented me from reusing anything that already existed, and so it forced me to do many common things all over from ground zero, like creating my own VGA video driver circuits, designing a new (octal) instruction set, and writing a custom boot loader and assembler.
Anyway I got it to the point where the machine could display Mario, here he is in glorious 9-bit color!
The Gemini Spacecraft OBC (on-board computer) from 1965. This system performed critical post-launch duties such attitude control and guidance during orbital insertion and re-entry.
Total available memory: 4K 39-bit words, or about 19KB, stored in thousands of miniature ferrite beads (magnetic core memory)
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GRiD was competition with eMachines more than Dell, and if memory serves they went out of business because of take-the-money-and-run management. Yes, I had access to a standard desktop made by them circa 2005, a relative had one. I like the design of this one being opposite of what you usually saw (in PS/1′s and Macs), where the CPU and floppy slots were above the monitor instead of below, though I’d get a neck cramp looking at this for long. (Also, the built-in amber mono screen circa 1985 is way too Kaypro for me…)
This is like the Jawa Sandcrawler of PCs.
One of my favourite clicks from this year. Running a #Commodore64 over one of the cheapest projectors available on the market l. The blue commodore #basic screen lights up the room.
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In 1991, I was working in the Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha Workstations group, designing the memory for the first ever Alpha system, the DEC 3000 AXP.
This DIMM card I was responsible for was the first piece of hardware for the system we actually built, and the photo above is the real first one we ever manufactured, (hence the p001 label)
But it wasn't the first one I designed. My first version of this board was delivered from our PCB manufacturing site to our offices, and everyone came over to see it because they were all excited about having an actual piece of hardware created.
The excitement ended pretty quickly though when we discovered the pads for the memory chips were spaced incorrectly. My layout tech had used the wrong library for the board design, and I failed to catch it.
So the first piece of Alpha hardware was crap, and it was kinda my fault. Super embarrassing at the time. After that, I got into the habit of physically printing board design layouts onto mylar, then going up to our stockroom and requesting one of every component that would go on the board so I could physically put it on the printout and check it.
The stockroom guy probably thought I was weird. But I never screwed up another PCB layout again..
The tiny little EOS S3 is the tiny chip in the centre containing a 2.4K LUT #FPGA And a 80Mhz Cortex-M4 #Arm #MCU running #ZephyrRTOS
How was the Linux distro born in 1992?
