{"id":8510,"date":"2015-10-20T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/homebrew-computers-really-homebrew-computers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T00:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:47:26","slug":"homebrew-computers-really-homebrew-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/homebrew-computers-really-homebrew-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Computers &#8212; REALLY Homebrew Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1968computer.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1968computer.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/10\/19\/diy-computer-1968-style\/\">Hackaday has an article today<\/a> that is, for me, very timely. In our last podcast, Pete and I were discussing the meaning of the word &#8220;homebrew&#8221; in the world of Software Defined Radio. As always, Pete was closer to the cutting edge, while I remain mired in Ludite (one D please!) curmudgeonism, committed to RADICAL FUNDAMENTALIST HOMEBREWING. No chips and no menus for me please. <\/strong><br \/> <strong><\/strong><br \/> <strong>Today, the Hackaday guys came to my rescue with a blast from the past. Homebrew computers! Not that simple &#8220;buy a mo-bo and plug in some boards&#8221; stuff. No, REAL homebrew, so HB that they even made their own components. 1968. I can dig it! I should have gone down this road. I had the C.L. Stong book &#8220;The Amateur Scientist&#8221; IN MY HANDS. It had some great articles about relay-based computers.<\/strong> <strong> I could have been rich!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/10\/19\/diy-computer-1968-style\/\"><strong>http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/10\/19\/diy-computer-1968-style\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackaday has an article today that is, for me, very timely. In our last podcast, Pete and I were discussing the meaning of the word &#8220;homebrew&#8221; in the world of Software Defined Radio. As always, Pete was closer to the cutting edge, while I remain mired in Ludite (one D please!) curmudgeonism, committed to RADICAL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/homebrew-computers-really-homebrew-computers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Computers &#8212; REALLY Homebrew Computers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-history","category-juliano-pete","category-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","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=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8512,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions\/8512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}