{"id":10846,"date":"2014-11-25T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/finally-a-computer-made-with-discrete-transistors\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:15:52","slug":"finally-a-computer-made-with-discrete-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/finally-a-computer-made-with-discrete-transistors\/","title":{"rendered":"FINALLY!  A Computer Made with Discrete Transistors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"buillogs-list post-content details-content\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4070561408462183254.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4070561408462183254.jpg\" width=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <b>Note the discrete BJT transistor T-shirt. Note the haunted, obsessed look in his eyes. This fellow is building a computer out of discrete transistors. He clearly has The Knack. <\/b><br \/> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/11\/22\/a-4-bit-computer-from-discrete-transistors\/\">http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/11\/22\/a-4-bit-computer-from-discrete-transistors\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note the discrete BJT transistor T-shirt. Note the haunted, obsessed look in his eyes. This fellow is building a computer out of discrete transistors. He clearly has The Knack. http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/11\/22\/a-4-bit-computer-from-discrete-transistors\/ Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,103,260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-history","category-knack-stories","category-minimalist-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10848,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions\/10848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}