ozhero

Your literally a legend IMHO.

Hugely generous in all the work you put into the public domain and I've been reading your guides for years.

BTW I also started in computing in 1978 on a DEC 10 Mainframe (in Assembler and then C) and Lunar Lander was my first game but played on a DECwriter (basically a line printer with a keyboard).

I'm still as passionate about IT as I was then!

This is excellent work!

Thanks for sharing and deserves a lot of Github stars!

This is excellent.

Deserves a lot more Github stars!

Thanks for posting this.

Or a first love (of the human kind) :-)

"I still think there's something invaluable about learning computers from first principles down to the metal"

Totally agree!

I never went to Uni either (at least not until I retired) yet have had a very succesful career in IT and still love tinkering like it sounds you do.

Those were heady days :-)

A fascinating story.

I owned a Linn Sondek turntabe in the 70's with a Denon cartridge.

Spent a crazy amount on Hi-Fi chasing the audiophile dream :-)

For someone who knows nothing about Lisp I found this an excellent article.

Motivates me to learn more about Lisp (and Clojure)

This is the very definition of "scratching your own itch" lol.

Very inspiring and I applaud your efforts.

I haven't written assembler in years but this inspires me to do a small project for the fun of it.

I started programming in 1978 (In Assembler) and wanted to know not only how the software worked but how the hardware worked.

Found a great kit using the Z80 and built it and spent many nights with a logic probe and oscilloscope learning digital eletronics. Also devoured the Z80 manual learning the instruction set.

I'm nearly 70 now but remember those days like they were yesterday.

Truly a magnificent CPU

This is an excellent well written article with just the information you need to get a basic understanding of the field.