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Re:8-bit computer from scratch by colejohnson66 on Saturday June 04, 2016 @11:00PM (#11839418)
Check out the Megaprocessor[0]. A guy made his own "processor" out of roughly a hundred thousand transistors, resistors, etc. Really interesting project.

[0]: http://www.megaprocessor.com/

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Re:8-bit computer from scratch by userbinator on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:57AM (#11839821)
Relatedly, a discrete 6502 built with a little over 3K transistors:

http://monster6502.com/ as seen on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703596

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Re:8-bit computer from scratch by abraae on Sunday June 05, 2016 @02:32PM (#11842350)
So impressive, but I am so happy to never have any reason to need to do anything like this myself. I used to fix IBM mainframes like 3033s back in the day, and debugging computers made up of gajillions of interconnected frames, boards and cards, under immense pressure, was truly the stuff of nightmares. After hours or even days, victory was finding a ringing signal with your scope, caused by a loose trilead. Then you went home and slept for a day.
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