Collaborate Disseminate
We have occasionally featured vacuum tube computers here at Hackaday and we’ve brought you many single board computers, but until now it’s probable we haven’t brought you a machine that …read more Continue reading A Single Board Computer, With Vacuum Tubes
While the world has been racing for higher and higher bit counts for CPUs, there are always those that buck the trend. Consider the venerable Motorola MC14500B, a 1-bit CPU, …read more Continue reading Too Cool for 8-bit Retro? Try 1-bit Gaming
Culminating a year-long project, [Usagi Electric] aka [David] has just wrapped up his single-bit vacuum tube computer. It is based on the Motorola MC14500 1-bit industrial controller, but since [David] changed …read more Continue reading Single Bit Computer from Vacuum Tubes
If you really think hard about it, a CPU is just a very general-purpose state machine. Well, most CPUs are, anyway. The MC14500 is a one-bit computer that has only …read more Continue reading One Bit CPU Runs at a Blistering 60Hz
Eight-bit computers are all the retro rage these days, with people rushing to build computers either from chips like the 6502 or the Z80, or even recreating these chips from a collection of TTL logic chips. And while we respect and covet those builds immensely, 8-bit computers aren’t the only …read more
Continue reading Gorgeous Perfboard Build Puts 1-Bit Controller Back to Work
In the 1980s there was an impetus for the first time for young people to be equipped with computer literacy. A variety of different educational programmes were launched, typically involving a collaboration between a computer manufacturer and a broadcaster, and featuring BASIC programming on one of the 8-bit home computers …read more
Continue reading What Everyone Else Did With Eight Bits, The Germans Did With Only One