Believe it or not, I think this pig may actually fly! Things are starting to get interesting. After several more days of wiring, I’ve reached the point where I can execute straight line code (no branches or jumps), with no…

Ugh, I’ve run into my first design flaw. Fortunately, I don’t think it will be too difficult to fix, but it’s an eye opener nonetheless. The issue I’m facing is fanout limitations. Fanout is the number of inputs that are…

Although progress continues to be slow, the machine is taking shape bit by bit. I bought another 100 foot spool of wire, along with 1000 pre-cut and pre-stripped wires in lengths from 1 to 4 inches. The pre-cut wire makes…

My recent wire-wrapping progress has been painfully slow: I’ve timed myself at about 2 minutes per wire. You might wonder how it could possibly take that long, but all the measuring, stripping, threading, wrapping, and squinting time really adds up.…

After ages of procrastination, I’m finally making some slow but measurable progress towards turning my paper design into reality, and actually building this crazy machine. Wire wrapping seems impossibly slow and tedious compared with working on a protoboard. Just creating…

There’s been lots of recent activity on different fronts. Too bad I still haven’t made any progress actually building the machine. Keyboardin’ Part 2 Here’s a shot of my glorious hand-wired PS/2 keyboard connector. I spent some time over the…