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Binkie The Clown

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4. I've been wanting to get one for quite a while.
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 11:26 PM
Mar 2016

About 20 years ago I designed my own machine language instruction set (I know, what programmer hasn't!) and I'd really like to emulate it on something I can stick into a retro-looking box with blinking lights and data entry toggle switches for the nostalgia of programming in assembler again. I have the emulator I wrote in C many years ago, but I'd love to port it to something stand-alone dedicated to emulating my home brew processor design.

Something like this little baby that was my own first home computer:





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Did you grab one of the $5 Zeros too? PoliticAverse Mar 2016 #1
Unfortuantely no. 47of74 Mar 2016 #2
Very cool. 4now Mar 2016 #3
I've been wanting to get one for quite a while. Binkie The Clown Mar 2016 #4
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