New Relay Computer

Jul 25, 2013 0 Replies

I've made a new relay computer: check out

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(look for the videos on the example programs page).



This one is a single board computer, like the microprocessor trainers of the



70s and 80s.

A trick to keep the relay count very low is my design for a master-slave flip-flop. By using a capacitor for the master side and a holding resistor based latch for the slave side, only 1.5 relays per bit are needed.


/* jhallen@world.std.com AB1GO */ /* Joseph H. Allen */ int a[1817];main(z,p,q,r){for(p=80;q+p-80;p-=2*a[p])for(z=9;z--;)q=3&(r=time(0) +r*57)/7,q=q?q-1?q-2?1-p%79?-1:0:p%79-77?1:0:p158?-79:0,q?!a[p+q*2 ]?a[p+=a[p+=q]=q]=q:0:0;for(;q++-1817;)printf(q%79?"%c":"%c\n"," #"[!a[q-1]]);}

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