On 03/21/2016 04:33 PM, Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
Might be of interest to the list: I just finished reading "Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson about the early days of digital computers (and a very cool account of the first cellular automaton running in 5K memory!) and - looking for more information about Boolean algebra and logic - came across this free online course that builds a virtual machine from first principles ...
https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer http://nand2tetris.org/
Next session starts March 28.
Or you could try this https://archive.org/details/howtobuildaworkingdigitalcomputer_jun67 They has this book in my high-school library and it sort of got me hooked. -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||