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256kb Does discrete components literally mean packaged single transitors, or can it mean packaged general purpose electronic components?
by ithkuil 4y ago
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Does discrete components literally mean packaged single transitors, or can it mean packaged general purpose electronic components?
- actionfromafar 4y agoI meant in a "starting civilization over again" sense, so anything which is easiest given what you have at hand. Core memory seems easier to massproduce without foundries compared to transistors. But if you have worked your way up to transistors already, the step is probably not very far to start doing chips with many transistors on them, given you already knew this was feasible.
- kjs3 4y agoFunctional core would be interesting without driver transistors.
- kragen 4y agopeople have built entire computers out of square-loop ferrite (the kind used in core memory) and diodes; ferrite/diode systems were especially popular in the ussr in the late 60s because their transistor fabrication technology was lagging magamps are still a thing today in some atx power supplies as i understand it the main problem is that you can't get them to run any faster than a few megahertz
- kragen 4y agoi think they meant packaged single transistors or vacuum tubes from the 'small room with air conditioning' phrase the board is already made of 'packaged general purpose electronic components', is quite a bit smaller than a room, and doesn't need air conditioning