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Re: 19,008 LEDs on the wall, 19,008 LEDs

Terry Olsen <tolsen64@hotmail.com> writes:
> I think it would be cool to see an Apple compatible built out of relays.

How "compatible" can it be, when you have to forgo video output?  A
relay-based computer will be four to five orders of magnitude too slow
to generate video.

And aside from that, you'd be waiting for weeks just to get to a monitor
prompt, or much longer for BASIC.

Building a relay computer would be fun, but there's absolutely no point
in trying to make it Apple-compatible.