You may or may not have heard of this. Big Mess Of Wires is a fully functional 8 bit CPU that was made by hand, manually wrapping each wire around the pins. Quite amazing really, when you consider how much planning and man hours must have gone into this.



Official Website:
http://www.stevechamberlin.com/cpu/about/

Sound demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdTH4KGBaBk...player_embedded

Specs:

• Current clock speed is 2MHz. It could theoretically go to about 3MHz (untested).
• 512 KBytes of RAM, 512 KBytes of ROM.
• Power draw is 10 Watts, 2.0A at 5V.
• VGA video output is 512×480 with two colors, or 128×240 with 256 colors.
• Audio and music is provided by a three-voice programmable sound generator.
• Keyboard input is a standard PC keyboard with PS/2 connector.
• Debug display is a 24×2 character text LCD.
• There are roughly 1250 wires connecting the components, so 2500 individual hand-turned wire wraps.

I would definitely think about doing something like this. Just for the hell of it. I wonder if you could alter GEOS to run on it... anyway, discuss.

Seen it before. Thanks for sharing to others though

And I'm sure Steve Chamberlin has some mental condition that allowed him to keep keeping on

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Is this comperable to anything but the Apple 2? It can't even run an operating system, and wouldn't really do anything... So what is the point?
~Vincent

The Commodore 64. It will do what computers from the time did. Play music, program and play games. It's a slice of the past. You can't say you've never wanted to do something just for the hell of it anyway... i think the answer to that question would be 'because i can'.

It does run an operating system...

The point is because the guy can. He made a fully functional computer built by hand.

If I had anywhere near that much time, I would definitely consider doing that. That's just frickin' awesome.

Next up: Windows 7 by hand!

...or not.

Well, I think things like this are really lame, since humankind has damaged a lot of the environment to advance in technology and build those factories (which still keep damaging the environment) I think they should use those factories instead of spending time on homemade stuff.

This thing is amazing but umm, really unnecessary (The guys who made this must have had lots of spare time) . Thanks for sharing