On the Shoulders of Giants...

[Zippy]

Not in 1960s RTL they're not...

It's easy to forget how difficult some of this stuff was from the perspective of Gigs of ram & billion transistor chips...

I find it interesting but you've probably gathered electronics is not one of my talents

[Zippy]

This looks as simple as it gets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor-transistor_logic

4 resistors & 3 transistors for a 3 input NOR...

Ah. NANDs are simpler to manufacture but I guess that's not the same thing.
Cheers Zeity.

[Zippy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Eee them were the days, back when men were men and engineers could actually engineer.

Why NOR gates though - I though NANDs were less complicated?

[zeitghost]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_memory

How do you fancy knitting your programs into rom?

"LOL memory" a.k.a. "Little Old Lady memory"...

Amazing.

And

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

And, of course, some lune has to build his own version in his basement...

http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/

Eee them were the days, back when men were men and engineers could actually engineer.

Why NOR gates though - I though NANDs were less complicated?

This looks as simple as it gets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor-transistor_logic

4 resistors & 3 transistors for a 3 input NOR...

Ah. NANDs are simpler to manufacture but I guess that's not the same thing.
Cheers Zeity.

Not in 1960s RTL they're not...

It's easy to forget how difficult some of this stuff was from the perspective of Gigs of ram & billion transistor chips...

That being said, those ancient RTL chips were a lot more radiation hard than anything since.