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I would love to read this kind of article along with all the drawings and pictures of a similar kit for the NES, from the 1980's A lot of those early programme
by bluedino 5y ago
I would love to read this kind of article along with all the drawings and pictures of a similar kit for the NES, from the 1980's
A lot of those early programmers knew electronics they just built their own stuff. Crazy compared to your average developer now. A lot of guys had to build their own terminals/keyboard etc back then (especially the 70's computer clubs). At some point the hardware and software kind of split up (lucky for us that didn't have any real hardware knowledge)
- tndata 5y agoTinkering with hardware back then was much easier because the frequency of the devices was pretty low (like 1-8 MHz) and the interfaces and system bus was much easier to work with compared to todays advanced protocols like (USB, etherhet...)
- hnthrowaway0315 5y agoYup, I guess we can still do it today, for ourselves and for our kids, with the right tools. I'm thinking maybe it is not a huge amount of effort to build your own hardware back in the day because so may people did that. At least they had kits too back in the day.