Build your own Apollo Guidance Computer

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Sun Dec 31 14:01:43 CST 2006


Richard wrote:

> Is it even possible to build with RTL parts anymore?
> 
> I guess you'd have to do it PDP-8 style with discrete transistors?
Well I don't like the FPGA idea -- TTL/DTL/RTL logic is still
visible logic. What good is FPGA's if the windows gets updated and
the FPGA software is not supported. PALS and GALS I could see used.

Also the orginal logic was FLAT PACK so if I remember right it could
get very dense.



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