Anders Nielsen will host the Hack Chat on Wednesday, April 3 at noon Pacific.
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Back in the early days of the personal computing revolution, you could have any chip you wanted, as long as it was 8-bits. We've come a long way since then, and while nobody seriously hopes for a wholesale return to the time when a Commodore 64 or Apple II was the home computing power play, there's still a lot to be said for the seat-of-the-pants feeling of the day. Our engineering forebears had their work cut out for them, and building the home PC revolution from the ground up with microprocessors that by today's standards were laughably limited is something worth celebrating.
Every retrocomputing enthusiast has their own favorite chip, and for Ander Nielsen, it's obviously the 6502 -- enough to give birth to his 65uino project, which put the storied microprocessor at the heart of an Arduino pin-compatible microcontroller. It's a neat project that seems to have caught a lot of people's imaginations and opened up a world of hardware and software hacks that modern hardware just doesn't need. Getting closer to the silicon is the goal of retrocomputing, and Anders is making it easy to get involved. And we're lucky enough to have him stop by the Hack Chat to talk all about teaching the 6502 some 21st-century tricks. Stop by and join in the discussion, and maybe you'll catch the 8-bit bug too.
it sounds to me that you are remembering the days chin up have fun play make things for your children instead of buying things for your children hopefully get them interested and let them help and boy does that make you happy I don't know but it makes me happy good luck