12-08-2012, 09:39 AM
Hi David,
Excellent work as usual. Quite a few man hours of work here.
In general 'out of the box' and custom ASIcs and the like generally reduce the level of enjoyment and depth of understanding any newcomer gets in building these types of project. My early projects were mostly in the computing area with wire wrapped boards and just about everything made of of discrete devices (before single chip CPU's). I did however build a pretty nice FM tuner in the mid seventies - even including etching the circuit boards - used it for many years.
Alas all my pre '87 stuff was lost in that famous storm than ran across the South UK in October of that year. All my gear was in the shed and there wasn't much of anything left the morning after the storm. I remember the roof was found in a neighbours garden a few houses down the road.
Cheers, John
Excellent work as usual. Quite a few man hours of work here.
In general 'out of the box' and custom ASIcs and the like generally reduce the level of enjoyment and depth of understanding any newcomer gets in building these types of project. My early projects were mostly in the computing area with wire wrapped boards and just about everything made of of discrete devices (before single chip CPU's). I did however build a pretty nice FM tuner in the mid seventies - even including etching the circuit boards - used it for many years.
Alas all my pre '87 stuff was lost in that famous storm than ran across the South UK in October of that year. All my gear was in the shed and there wasn't much of anything left the morning after the storm. I remember the roof was found in a neighbours garden a few houses down the road.
Cheers, John
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