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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#361 – An Interview with Ken Shirriff
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		0
	Publish Date:		2017-09-25 15:30:03
	Description:		Welcome Ken Shirriff from Righto.com! Ken uses a metallugical microscope and the hyugens software package to stitch together the images. Inside fake RAM chips Armour etch will remove the top layer of oxide Analyzing a vintage 8008 Mining bitcoin with pencil and paper. Ken made a video of this as well. Mining bitcoin on a Xerox Alto! Xerox Alto , precursor to (all computers, but also the) Xerox Star Alan Kay yCombinator contacted Ken to rebuild theirs. The IBM 1401 demo lab Living computer museum in Seattle Smalltalk – BCPL The 76477 sound chip Integrated Injection Logic Day 31 of restoration The Alto had the first version of tons of modern computer peripherals: Mouse Laser Printer Ethernet Ken displayed his work at the recent VCF They found a disk with an early version of Voice over IP! Bell Labs discovering big bang (microwave background radiation) Sinclair calculator simulator Ken was inspired by the Visual 6502 CuriousMarc is a YouTube channel that followed the Alto rebuild TI Calculator simulator Ken uses lots of patents like this one from TI There are interesting things happening in Mac chargers (and the ripoffs) DS2413 1-Wire switch iPad chargers were interesting as well Sprite_tm talking about FTDI parts Ken also tears down vintage parts like the 555 Figured out transistors on die from books, LT Spice Transfluxors – core memory Read more on righto.com or follow Ken on Twitter as @KenShirriff
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