Saturday, May 25, 2024

Smallest Computer

I wonder whether anyone remembers a computer I designed -- it was one of my Perpetual Projects published in 2001 in the UK -- it appears in the EPE index as a register. I have lost the design. It was a one-bit CMOS computer with input, processor, memory, and display. By way of comparison, the computer I am using to write this post has billions of bits inside. Anyway, it was fun to invent a computer so simple -- and one actually could do some things with it. OBSERVATION: Within living memory, some of the simplest electronic circuits -- such as a one-bit computer -- were not that easy.

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