BMOW 1980s Flashback
Here’s someone with way too much time on their hands… Engadget reports that game developer Steve Chamberlain has gone to the extraordinary effort of building a CPU (central processor unit – the main chip in a PC) from scratch, using nothing more that 50 or so standard off-the-shelf logic chips, and rather a lot of wires. That also explains the name, it’s been dubbed BMOW or Big Mess Of Wires, and I have no trouble whatsoever believing his claim that it took a year to build. For those that are interested it’s equivalent to CPU chips from the 1980s, used in the likes of the Commodore 64 and Apple II. It is an 8-bit design, runs at around 2MHz has 512Kb of memory and will run programs written in languages like BASIC, no
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