TTL homebrew CPUs

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: TTL homebrew CPUs
>   From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
>   Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:23:00 -0600
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>dwight elvey wrote:
>
>> If you really want them to act like a TD, place a resistor in parallel
>> to give the final slope. It doesn't make them any better at doing
>> fun things but is closer the a real TD.
>> Dwight
>But with a ka-zillion tunnel diodes you can build the fastest
>computer ever. Well that was what all the hype was about in the
>early 60's.
>Did anyone ever use Junction Fets in computer logic?

Not that I've seen.  Likely reason for that is by time the JFETs became
common enough production computers were IC based.  However MOSfets on
silicon did make it into IC as CMOS and well.. there in computers big time,


Allison