A blog about a computer made from relays

My journey in constructing an 8 bit relay computer from scratch ... made from of a ton of solder, wires, lights, relays, sweat, tears, swearing and money.

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05 Nov 2022 - 3 min read

Back to Backplanes

Quite a while ago I decided to give up on the tedious wire wrap technique for building my cards. Although it was certainly more authentic and in-keeping with my …

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14 May 2022 - 9 min read

Assembling an assembler - overview

To make my relay computer do something interesting (or anything at all) it needs a list of instructions held in memory. Each instruction consists of an 8-bit value called an …

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02 May 2022 - 4 min read

Intermission

So, is fair to say that things have been a bit quiet around here of late … and if you’ve been following my YouTube channel I do hope you haven’t been holding your breath for …