newbie building a scratch-built computer

[Ensor]

Hi,

  >....It's surprising how far one can get without a scope
  >or a logic analyzer. I'd recommend, though, that you put
  >together a "pulse sniffer"--little more than a one-shot
  >driving an LED to "stretch" pulses....

  > You can build one of these things into a Magic Marker case
  >with a nice sharp probe on the tip.

<GRIN> What, like a logic probe...?

I don't actually have a logic analyser myself (annoyingly), and tend to 
reach for my logic probe long before I resort to digging out my 'scope. I 
find mine indispensible.


If the OP is in the UK, then Maplins do a nice one for £15 (which is less 
than I paid for mine back in 1980).


  TTFN - Pete.