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This whopping 16-bit computer processor is being built by hand, transistor by transistor

John Savard

I'm shocked. The thing is costing more than a PDP-8 did. And these days, one ought to be able to find discrete transistors cheaply in old junk people are throwing away.

Actually, that would have been more true a decade or so ago. These days, the "junk" has become valuable antiques.

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