On 2016-10-31, at 00:42, Edward Finnell wrote:
>
> ... As Einstein said 'I stand on the shoulders
> of Maxwell.
>
A much recycled metaphor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants
But Wikipedia (which is (almost) never wrong) attributes only to Hawking the
association with Einstein, who knew he was paying tribute to Newton et al.
Aha!
http://www.eoht.info/page/Shoulder+genius
On 2016-10-31, at 08:12, Bill Hitefield wrote:
> I remember them!
> And you could get your components via "Lafayette Electronics"!
>
I think Radio Shack still exists.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Marchant
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 9:55 AM
>
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 07:03:22 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>
>> Do we have a target as to when Amazon will have it in stock?
>
> Heathkit?
>
And Dyna and Eico.
http://www.megaprocessor.com/
.com!? Seems bigger than a PDP-8, which I believe was discrete transistor.
(Maybe PDP-5?) But he cheated with LSI memory; hard to get core nowadays.
-- gil
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