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Consider AVR atmega chips, those are my favorite MCUs, they can be scavanged from trashed washing-machines or hue lightbulbs, they will be available in the future for sure. Instruction set is human friendly and pretty powerful.
Consider collapse-OS - an operating system made to run on many lo-tech chips. It has some documentation in pdf.
Mar 01 · 3 months ago
(1/3) The photonic modules are black rhombi, set suspended in a transparent "chassis", a tall hexagonal prism clearer than lucite. Advances in nanocrystaline manufacture allow the components to be grown from "pattern seeds"; nanomachines dumbly build up from these protochips in a manner resembling mitosis. The crystaline base materials are designed to optimise optical qualities, along with thermo-expansive, harmonic, and such considerations - to atomic precision. Extremely tight timings thus facilitate extremely high HZ clocks, esp. with minimial "hot" circuitry.
(2/3) Each black module has IO at the outer edge, like today's silicon dies. The border is also where non-purely-photonic componentry are located, such as photoelectric interfaces, radios etc. Lastly, the edges of each rhombus are striped with hash signatures of each physical design; adjacent modules may reference the signatures in an independent database; a structure may be fully "light-swept" and hashed as a sort of physical checksum. As such, they are "immutable hardware."
(3/3) One "machine" approximates a jumbo pencil in size and shape. As the entire surface of a long columnar face is available for IO, many configurations are facilitated. A personal machine may be carried about as we do with phones today, placed into various docks, peripheral housings, surfaces and so-on. Furthermore, multiple machines may be physically clustered, arranged like basalt in Giant's Causeway. As before, extremely tight tolerances preclude much additional overhead/latancy between physically 'separate' stacks, compared against a sealed assembly.
I do not know what they are called.
fantacy computer inc. Let's try to 'design' a fantacy computer. Disclaimer: I'm not really a hardware person, please bear with me while I ramble about my fantacy machine. I can only hope that one day someone out there will produce, perhaps handcraft a true durable computer that could outlast me. I think the tech is already here, at least on the hardware side. Tantalum capacitor, leaded solder, MEMS oscillator, ceramic PCB, gold PCB trace, some detuned CPU that will be running at a some what...
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