TIM8 Relay Computer (Vlog 10.5): Programming TIM

Just thought I'd do a little demo on how I go about printing off program tapes for TIM. It's not very exciting, and didn't think it deserved to be a proper update, but its up for those of you who are interested.

BTW, please suggest any programmes you can think of for tim, as I'm failing to think of any atm...

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[rapidrory]

@aloisrenard Well, my dad's an electronic engineer, so i managed to find about 100 off him, then the rest were stripped out of junk lying around (like cars, U.P.S.s, microwaves etc.) That $20 was spent on a few extra 4 pole and 2 pole relays, and the LED's for the tape reader... I'm not counting the components for the memory though, which cost about another £10

[aloisrenard]

@rapidrory aw!!! what was your source for relays ?

[rapidrory]

@aloisrenard Well i spent all of £20 on this project :P

[aloisrenard]

Your project is haunting my mind, hard to resist not to put my money on a thousand of relays!!

[rapidrory]

@bootnecklad Well, I'm trying to sort out a matrix key pad input, which shouldn't be too hard to do in theory, and also trying to do a 7 seg display output. If i combined them into one piece of external hardware, it could be make quite a nice little interface. Just depends whether I'd have enough memory left to do anything other than just input a number then display it, but we'll have to wait and see :P

[bootnecklad]

We had a discussion about a very basic 'OS' (If you could call it that!) You could attach an interface to the I/O port similar to the one found on the Apollo guidance computers. Google 'dsky'. It would be the prefect addition to TIM8! I dont know what you could do with such a basic OS but I'm just putting the idea into your head. ;)