Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips 343
ps writes "Bill Buzbee has constructed a hand-made CPU, complete with
hardware address translation, memory mapped I/O, and DMA, out of 200
74-series TTL chips wired together with thousands of individually wrapped
wires. By using a port of Adam Dunkels' uIP TCP/IP stack to the Magic-1, it
currently serves up live web pages
at an amazing speed of 3 MHz. See the website for photos and
schematics."
Serves up webpages... (Score:5, Funny)
Garage innovation at its finest! (Score:5, Funny)
Not a smart move.. (Score:3, Funny)
3 MHz? (Score:2, Funny)
Checklist (Score:5, Funny)
- Already slow even before hitting the front page: Check
- Millions of bored geeks have just dragged themselves into work: Check
Yep, there is no chance this will get slashdotted, but in case it does, I think there is a mirror working here [nyud.net].
Quickest Slashdotting on Record ... (Score:4, Funny)
P.S. Cool project Bill.
Tradgic (Score:3, Funny)
* Files served: 804
* Boot time: Sunday, June 05 2005 - 08:59:01 PM
* Current time: Monday, June 06 2005 - 07:05:14 AM
* Ticks mod 64: 56
* uIP start time: Sunday, June 05 2005 - 10:18:36 PM
* Clock speed: 3.0 Mhz
* OS Version: 1.33
* Slashdotted: Monday, June 06 2005 - 07:13:14 AM
Dear Ask Slashdot (Score:2, Funny)
In the time it took Bill Buzbee to create his homebrew CPU, I perfected the artificial vagina. Coincidently, it too is constructed out of 200 74-series TTL chips wired with thousands of individually wrapped wires. Now I ask: whose time was better spent?
Letter
Hemos shows his evil side (Score:2, Funny)
correction (Score:1, Funny)
It previously served up live web pages...
Re:Not a smart move.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Area man adds homebrew MMU to PDP-11/34 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dear Ask Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Checklist (Score:3, Funny)
Did anyone explain to you how this world is spherical....?
Looks Like He's Whipped Also (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Checklist (Score:3, Funny)
No! Magic-2 must be built out of discrete transistors, Magic-3 out of valves, and Magic-4 must be entirely mechanical. Successive technological anachronisms must increase in their level of insanity!
I did a short course in digital microelectronics a few years ago (ever-so-coincidentally using 74xx chips as well) - it was great fun putting everything together, extending things, linking flip-flops and whatnot together. With parts 'borrowed' from others, I built a giant counter circuit, but who knows what I might have built given enough chips, breadboards and wires...
Almost familar (Score:4, Funny)
10 years ago I worked in a mainframe shop that had upgraded from the 4381 to a 9121. Neither system had much "eye candy". That meant that the client didn't have much to show off in the "big window" of the data center when tours/investors were guided thru.
Unless Tex was working.(and thankfully he almost always there). He was the client's rep that ordered paper by the semi for us & was able to bend Standard Register to his will with a mere phone call(one semi load of paper a year will usually do that, we did multiples)
Tex would lead the tour to the window and happily point to the elderly IBM network controller(box was actually blue on the sides, model forgotten) with all its blinking status leds and tell em "there is the computer".
They'd make "pretty lights" noises and continue along, Tex would grin from ear to ear & we'd have to wait till they left before we could run outta air laughing.
Tex dreaded the times anyone talked about network upgrades.
THREE MILLION!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Modern computers come with like 2.4 or something. This is wAY WAY faster, no way will we slashdot it.
wonder if he's thought about load blancing (Score:1, Funny)
submitter guilty of gross negligence and vandalism (Score:5, Funny)
This is a prime case where the submitter should have : 1) warned the site's owner, 2) made arrangements for a mirror or coral cache or bittorrent whatever. Because you KNOW this bitch was gonna go down like a three-year-old trying to stop a stampeding herd of elephants.
And the alledged "management" of slashdot should have at least warned the poor sap before unleashing this upon his little corner of the web.
That said, this sounds uber-l33t, and I'm planning to check it out once the smoking rubble is cleared away.
How long does it take to rip a CD on this succa?!! (Score:5, Funny)
The Amish Computer? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dear Ask Slashdot (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Serves up webpages... (Score:5, Funny)
Fark takes down sites faster.
And posts the same stories a week earlier!
Re:Looks Like He's Whipped Also (Score:4, Funny)
Mastercard (Score:3, Funny)
Wirewrap boards to put the chips on, $20
Wirewrap wire to hook everything up, $20
turning on your webserver, only to be slashdotted - priceless!
Re:Looks Like He's Whipped Also (Score:5, Funny)
A fine line.