playing with Cloude AI

[Matthias Barthel]

the last 2 days i was playing with AI and the 2 Trainingfiles from Oscar and Angelo.

i was able to build a complete PDP1-Simulator on a ESP32 Controller for my own PDP1 Hardware replica.

i began 4 years ago to build this Machine, but i'am struggeling with the code, now the machine works fine, not almost all features are implemented, but the hello world-program works 👌

in the next days i make the code clean and create an github repository with hard and software for all who are interested.

I am not writing these lines to advertise my machine, but because I am enthusiastic about the possibilities of AI and encourage you to use the AI and the training files!

Matthias

[Oscar Vermeulen]

Matthias,

It was so interesting when I first saw your PDP-1 replica! Because I mistook it for the PiDP-1 until I looked closely. It kind of proves both of us were on the Right Path of Doing It, with these flat top LEDs and PCB-as-front-panel.

I do think we could almost merge the two projects - I'd love to make a little shim PCB that holds an esp32 to drive the PiDP-1, and it would be quite feasible to drive yours with the pidp1 software, with some modifications!

To some extend, the esp32 might be a more logical platform for a PDP-1 simulator, given the extremely simple computer that it nees to emulate. We went for the Pi because we wanted to do this simulation of the circuit, rather than the higher-level simulation of the instructions. But that's just flavours of doing the same thing.

An esp32 plugged in instead of a Pi has some obvious attractions. Looking forward to your code when Githubbed!

Kind regards,

Oscar.

[Angelo Papenhoff/aap]

Very cool that you got things running on the ESP32! I'm really not super happy about needing something as beefy as a raspi running linux for something as simple as a PDP-1. But the biggest difficulties are the lamp glow simulation and the type 30 display. Still dreaming of something more minimal....

[Oscar Vermeulen]

The esp32 will have no problem with doing the lamp glow - you'd use one of its two cores for the panel driver, the other for the PDP-1 simulator.

What the esp32 would have a problem with, is doing the low-level simulation of our (well, your) pdp1 simulator at full speed. The esp32 should use a more high level instruction simulation. I think. Although - you only know when you try. OK...