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I love watching retro computing channels on YouTube, and many of them does such a great job of explaining CPUs like 6502, 6510, Z80 or Motorola 68000. Especiall

I love watching retro computing channels on YouTube, and many of them does such a great job of explaining CPUs like 6502, 6510, Z80 or Motorola 68000. Especially the 6502 is interesting, not because it's a marvel of technology, but because you can learn how it work in a reasonable time frame. I took university courses in computer architecture, but I can explain how a modern PowerPC or AMD64 CPU work. The 6510 is something I can easily follow when some guy on YouTube explains how a C64 works and how he goes about debugging and repairing a broken system.

coldpie 5y ago
Probably my favorite example of this is this guy's demonstration of an Altair 8800, one of the earliest PCs, back when they had physical switches on the front panel which you would use to manually enter machine code for the computer to run. Scroll down to the bottom for the earliest videos to see the introductory demonstrations. He builds on that to show how data was loaded from paper punch tape, then later audio cassettes and external disk storage: https://www.youtube.com/user/deramp5113/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/deramp5113/videos
- ilaksh 5y ago
  There is an online Altair simulator https://s2js.com/altair/ https://s2js.com/altair/
Stratoscope 5y ago
> I took university courses in computer architecture, but I can explain how a modern PowerPC or AMD64 CPU work. Just to avoid possible confusion, I think you meant "I can't explain", is that right?