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That was a particularly nice little angle, I felt .. when I showed my kids this video, I had to explain how the chip contained multiple gates, and it was likely
by fit2rule 10y ago
That was a particularly nice little angle, I felt .. when I showed my kids this video, I had to explain how the chip contained multiple gates, and it was likely that one of them was borked, so you hacked over some wires to use one of the other gates - and my kids tuned into this right away .. "you mean that not all the features of these chips are used in the original?" .. typical engineering lesson, in a few seconds of video. :)
- digi_owl 10y agoThat's why Woz's boards were so crazy, he found ways to make use of every last gate and such on each chip he put in.
- aswanson 10y agoYeah Woz was a beast like that, but I wonder how effective he would have been working with more people. Would he have been seen as a great engineer or just an early version of someone who wrote spaghetti code in hardware?
- digi_owl 10y agoWell i think Atari had to redo his implementation of the Breakout game because they could not make heads or tails of it. But then they likely thought it was Jobs that made it, so...
- justin66 10y agoFascinating thing I saw recently in social media, though I don't have a URL: Woz woke up one night in 2014 with the thought of a way to knock a chip off the Apple II's design. I haven't looked at the details but of course this was very endearing to me, the pure love for that design that Woz has always felt. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/iiLgD-7INtE%5B1-25%5D https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/iiLg...
- fit2rule 10y agoThanks for that, great read. . .