Usagi Electric | VTC P.35 – Building the Output Register @UsagiElectric | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
Our DIY vacuum tube computer is making excellent progress. In this episode, we need to get the output register built, but it is subtly different to the scratch register, which is going to take a little bit of a change in the PCB design to knock out. So, let’s take a look at how the scratch register was built and then how we have to change that to make the output register work like we need it to!

Ken Shirriff’s article on the MC14500:
righto.com/2021/02/a-one-bit-processor-explained-reverse.html

Tube Computer Wiki:
github.com/Nakazoto/UEVTC/wiki

MC14500 Single Board Computer:
youtu.be/md_cPxVDqeM

How I cut my PCBs:
youtu.be/AB84_vbH_e8

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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Thank you so much Patrons!
2:58 A 1-bit computer with 2-bytes of memory
6:15 The scratch register
9:07 The output register
12:10 Let’s build that PCB!
14:02 Testing
15:05 That’s not good…
16:36 Let’s try this again!
20:06 Excellent! What’s next?
22:38 She climbed into that spot herself…