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CDP1802 wrote: Just as I always said, but I prefer a hex keyboard. Toggle switches are too slow.
I agree with you there! See you got it working, looking good!
Is that an old wire wrap tool there on the table?
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Oh, sorry. That's a replica of the original, not mine. My old omputer is only a year younger, but did not need any more wire wrapping and has a hex keyboard.
Here[^] you can see one like mine being made functional again. The 'mainboard' essentially is the same as the wirewrapped original, but with some improvements. The one shown there is quite similar to mine, I just never had more than 4k RAM, but at least it still works perfectly after all the years.
This year I was outside a lot, trying to fly around with (model) helicopters. By now good weather at the weekend is getting more rare, so chances are good that I will have more time for working on the Elf III with 16 mb RAM and perhaps the prototype for a multi CPU Elf IV 
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I checked prices on ebay for the Elf, couldn't afford one then and can't afford one now...damn expensive! But would be fun to play with, maybe I'll develop an equivalent one using an AVR?
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Build one from scratch. The original cost 100$ in 1977 and that has not changed very much. Some parts, like the CDP1802 are a little harder to get, but I can help with that.
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The one thing that holds me back from doing a lot of projects is PCB fabrication. I've been looking at different ways to DIY but haven't taken the leap yet. To have them made is a tad expensive but the result is a lot better than I could probably do. I tried wire wrap years ago and was terrible at it so I feel that is not a real option.
CDP1802 wrote: Some parts, like the CDP1802 are a little harder to get, but I can help with that.
Thanks will keep that in mind if/when I get to that point.
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CDP1802 wrote: Here you go.[^] Just as I always said, but I prefer a hex keyboard. Toggle switches are too slow.
Not if you use these toggle switches PDP-8/I[^], in high school we had to enter the boot program by hand. There were arguments on whether it was faster to toggle the switches as they were or to swipe across to reset before setting them.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Actually, I find the most important factor to be the demand and availability of a Programming language.
At college I always wanted to learn C++, even when they said "Yeah, we have C++" they did not. They lied to me and then flat-out gave me C#.
Honestly, after finishing my studies on C# this year in December, I'll probably get myself a course on C++. After all, the more program languages you learn, the better your scope is.
It all comes down to scope in my opinion. Different languages (like the variation of Pascal we have at work) have different scopes, therefore once learning a scope, you're able to do more in a language.
I think my logic is a little confused (Haven't been coding all that much lately, company has given me formwork to do most of the time.) but I'm sure to take my final C# test in about January/February next year.
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Eiffel - now there's a name. With all the imagery of phallic, Gaulloise-smoked France, how could it not be a success? I even made it say 'Hello World'. Eventually. With a French accent of course. 
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: Eiffel - now there's a name.
It definitely sounds better than YUCK (or however it's spelled...) 
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Actually it's not so bad, as long as you use a black & white monitor with a grainy picture and smoke plenty of Gaulloises while getting an Algerian craftsman to do the actual coding while you talk in a depressed way to your girlfriend, sitting with a full ash tray and empty coffee thimbles. 
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I would say this is true 99% of the time, you can make a program as slow as a governmental office on C++, while a program written in JavaScript run circles around it.
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That never was a hard thing to do and the last 15 years have seen many new specialists in that field
P.S.: The mere existance of JavaSnailScript is evidence enough for that. 
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Tarek Elqusi wrote: ...but the people behind the keyboards
True that. I was given a problem that was to be solved in no more than an hour. I came up with a solution inside that hour, but I hated it. It was an O(N^2) solution. I spent much more time thinking about it and came up with an O(N) solution that put it to shame. So, am I one of those problem coders because I came up with a bad solution off the top of my head? Or am I a problem coder for coming up with an elegant solution so slowly?
I have very little experience with C++, all I know is the uncountable number of times programs failed because of memory leaks and they turned out to be C++ code. (I could get C# to fail with memory problems too but that was intentionally running a recursive routine over 40K times or creating an int array with 200,000,000 items.)
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" int array with 200,000,000 items".
I once tried to read a big file for md5sum calculation, then realised it was bigger than my total available RAM.
As I remember, the solution was to use some sort of block-copying stream function(C#) with a big block to make the processing bearable. 
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To quote a friend, Lou Reed is now a Satellite of Love Sweet, sweet Jane[^] ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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It's not a perfect day.
Edna Krabappel and the inventor of the doner kebab have also died.
Tragically I think it is probably the kebab man who has touched my life the most and Lou Reed the least.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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ChrisElston wrote: the inventor of the doner kebab have also died.
Did he carry a doner card?
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Some say that "Donnerstag", which is german for thursday will be renamed into "Donerstag".
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MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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ChrisElston wrote: Edna Krabappel
No relation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After like 10 years or something like that they managed to let die a second character of the Simpsons.
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Um....I think Marcia had something to do with it.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) What a shame.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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