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You can make something as complicated as a 6502 processor with just electricity for furnaces, motors, and pumps, without using any electronics. You’d have to
by wrycoder 4y ago
You can make something as complicated as a 6502 processor with just electricity for furnaces, motors, and pumps, without using any electronics.
You’d have to go back to hand-cut Rubylith for the mask sets.
Hand made transistors are no problem, just more expensive.
- mywittyname 4y agoPeople still do this stuff for fun too. So it's not some lost knowledge. I wouldn't be surprised if some colleges taught this as part of a history of computers course.