Yeah, but tubes give that awesome primordial glow! Not just the warm yellow of the filaments, but the pulsing blue from the plates. Crank the B+ voltage up high enough and you can even get the stuff around you to glow from the X-rays!
@ptagliamonte Clock in computing terms is the same as an oscillator, i.e. something that provides the beats that synchronizes the machine. The pulses comes from a digital ocillator right now, which then goes into a relay circuit that breaks it up into subpulses. That's the sound you hear.
@ApolloWasReal I use a nice DIN mounted industrial automation power supply, 24V @ 10 amps. The maximum current draw is about 6 amps, when more or less all LEDs are on .
@nablaman Cool. Why does the expression "stone knives and bearskins" keep coming to mind? Have you considered building a computer from vacuum tubes? It would be faster -- not counting tube replacement time.
@nablaman You should take an oldschool alarm clock and hack it so that it works as a 1hz oscillator, then light it up with LEDs (bonus points if it has glow-in-the dark hands and you light it up with UV LEDs)
@MichaelKingsfordGray Thanks a lot! And your deduction is correct. :) ( Any girls enjoying the sounds of clicking relays - look no further! You know where to find me =) )
I find myself wondering all the time, if a computer becomes self-aware, would it ever be able to determine, without access to the outside world, what it's made of?
What does it use for a clock? I hear ticking in the back, and I can't tell if you hard-hacked an actual clock into it (crazy stupid, but hugely leet) or if it's a relay ticking every half-second.
@TheElectricnoob Ett antal tusen har det väl kostat, men jag har hållt på från och till i två år med projektet, och då blir det ju inte så farligt om man slår ut det. Reläna kostade ca 2000 kr hos en skrothandlare. Och kopplandet är ju en del av det roliga :) Är säkert uppe i nån kilometer tråd på undersidan av korten :)
What does it use for a clock? I hear ticking in the back, and I can't tell if you hard-hacked an actual clock into it (crazy stupid, but hugely leet) or if it's a relay ticking every half-second.
So strange to hear the system clock pulse, it sounds like an actual clock!
@ITGuru0111 It uses 4PDT and 6PDT 24V relays from scrapped telephone exchange boards, probably manufacured in the late 70's
Brilliant ! that is an amazing amount of work to set up all those relays on that panel
Yeah, but tubes give that awesome primordial glow! Not just the warm yellow of the filaments, but the pulsing blue from the plates. Crank the B+ voltage up high enough and you can even get the stuff around you to glow from the X-rays!
this is amazing. as a bit of a (read: a huge) vintage computer geek, i am incredibly impressed. good job on this! keep it up.
But tubes wouldn't make such awesome clicky sounds! Gotta love the relay click.
Can't wait to see tetris on it :)
I wonder if it's possible to run real time tetris on some of the relais instead of a display 🤔
@bibinson The laptop is used both to upload program to Zusie and optionally display output. It's connected via the parallel port.
@chronius9 It peaks somewhere around 100 Watts
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster...
@ptagliamonte Clock in computing terms is the same as an oscillator, i.e. something that provides the beats that synchronizes the machine. The pulses comes from a digital ocillator right now, which then goes into a relay circuit that breaks it up into subpulses. That's the sound you hear.
@captainbackflash I don't remember right now what the heck this particular program did :)
1 Hz clocked computer...
enough for led blink program
@ApolloWasReal I use a nice DIN mounted industrial automation power supply, 24V @ 10 amps. The maximum current draw is about 6 amps, when more or less all LEDs are on .
What a joy!
This is beautiful.
Is that 1 cycle clock pulse?
if pink floyd were bunch of nerds, this is what they would have created.
bravo!
Awesome to hear :)
Thanks for sharing!
Techno :D. Sounds like my grandfather clock.
very impressive! 64K should be enough for everyone!
Really a great work. Grats. But let me guess, the result of the calculations it is performing is 42 !?
@nablaman Cool. Why does the expression "stone knives and bearskins" keep coming to mind? Have you considered building a computer from vacuum tubes? It would be faster -- not counting tube replacement time.
@nablaman You should take an oldschool alarm clock and hack it so that it works as a 1hz oscillator, then light it up with LEDs (bonus points if it has glow-in-the dark hands and you light it up with UV LEDs)
nablaman Try to run MS-DOS on it :D
@Papaconstantopoulos You're totally right.
I have not seen that many ide cables since the 80's, and I was not even alive then!
@MichaelKingsfordGray Thanks a lot!
And your deduction is correct. :) ( Any girls enjoying the sounds of clicking relays - look no further! You know where to find me =) )
@kingcrimson234 Thanks! :) Well.. could make it into a web server but it would take years to deliver a web page :)
what was the program zuse used in 1943 .to build better wings.
I find myself wondering all the time, if a computer becomes self-aware, would it ever be able to determine, without access to the outside world, what it's made of?
What does it use for a clock? I hear ticking in the back, and I can't tell if you hard-hacked an actual clock into it (crazy stupid, but hugely leet) or if it's a relay ticking every half-second.
@bootnecklad Soon! :)
the only computer that will survive the solar flares in 2013!
What the energy consumption is? (in watts)
next logical step: Zusie as a web server?????? :O__
@TheElectricnoob Ett antal tusen har det väl kostat, men jag har hållt på från och till i två år med projektet, och då blir det ju inte så farligt om man slår ut det. Reläna kostade ca 2000 kr hos en skrothandlare. Och kopplandet är ju en del av det roliga :) Är säkert uppe i nån kilometer tråd på undersidan av korten :)
What's the power supply? How much current does it draw?
Am I missing something? How can it be a "relay computer" if you are using integrated circuits and other electronic components?
What it looks like to me is that the CPU is relay based while memory is IC based. Honestly a smart decision.
Redstone IRL? :D
Still faster than my Windows tablet, heh.
Read code by charles petzold
Where do you get the output?
you need a computer for a computer xD
But... Why!?
Sinky J. What do you create?
@iddeenyear4 I have written more information about it on my web page nablaman.com
reminds me of computers in minecraft XD
Can it run crisis?
Did you write your own assembly? I'm about to take on building a computer out of capacitors
Jason Sweet haha hey buddy how'd your... Capacitor computer going? Lol I hope you've learned a thing or 2 in 5 years.
What does it use for a clock? I hear ticking in the back, and I can't tell if you hard-hacked an actual clock into it (crazy stupid, but hugely leet) or if it's a relay ticking every half-second.