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Magic-1 is a homebuilt minicomputer, cpu and all
- anurag 16y agoIt's funny that a guy who built his computer from scratch used Microsoft FrontPage to build the website for it.
- sliverstorm 16y agoTheory A: he was too busy with hardware to waste his time writing a website any other way Theory B: he doesn't know much about or care about learning how to make web pages- he is into hardware.
- elblanco 16y agoThis my friends, is hacking.
- godDLL 16y agoThis guy worked on Froyo's JIT.
- AlexMuir 16y ago-I'm buying a laptop. -Pah, a laptop? You want a desktop. -Buying??? A real man builds a desktop. -Builds it? Anyone worth anything builds from barebones. -Barebones is for n00bs. I hand solder the whole thing together. -Hand solder? You soft shite, I use a blacksmith's forge and a hot piece of iron. -A hot piece of iron? I should be so lucky - I'm going back to basics and not using fire. I'm just bashing rocks together to get them the right shape. (still, awesome achievement)
- flannell 16y agoA hot piece of iron? Luxury. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. </python>
- whakojacko 16y agoI built cpu in an computer architecture class and it was one of the most useful things I have ever done, in terms of information learned. It was of course extremely limited (4 bit, so only 16 instructions, 16 type of instructions, 64 bytes of ram, only output was 4 leds for the single register, etc) but a great experience.
- ygd 16y agoWhat topics did you guys cover (in class)?
- whakojacko 16y agowe started at the transistor level, building AND/OR gates. Then XOR/NAND etc, then a simple ALU (using real nand/and/or etc chips) then a simple register, etc all the way up, each step getting an integrated chip to replace what we had built with smaller components in the previous step.
- indy 16y agoFor anyone whose interested in this sort of thing I highly recommend The Elements of Computing Systems (http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/ http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/).
- vog 16y agoIn my university (HU Berlin) this is part of the normal computer science curriculum in the 2nd or 3rd semester. And I fully agree, this is really interesting and you get a much deeper understanding of a computer's internals.
- aaronbrethorst 16y ago> It serves web pages at http://www.magic-1.org http://www.magic-1.org Except when it's getting slammed by every person reading HN on a Friday night, apparently.
- chopsueyar 16y agoThis is old, isn't it?
- kaitnieks 16y agoLet's try not to kill the computer by visiting webpages it serves all at once :)
- noonespecial 16y agoHe once built his own computer, out of nothing but TTL... A picture should now appear with him surrounded by beautiful women and Dos Equis. (Then Chuck Norris happens by, pauses, shakes his head, and mutters "Damn, that's cool.")