Author Topic: Iron Man: Powered by Lego Mindstorms  (Read 2710 times)

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Re: Iron Man: Powered by Lego Mindstorms
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2014, 08:30:26 pm »
Did you know that the terminator had a 6502 processor from Apple?  :-/O
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Re: Iron Man: Powered by Lego Mindstorms
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2014, 08:34:42 pm »
Just about every hard drive has a 6502 in a core inside it, used as a bootstrap processor and watchdog. Refer to free electron's posts on hard drives.
 

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Re: Iron Man: Powered by Lego Mindstorms
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2014, 09:24:37 pm »
Just about every hard drive has a 6502 in a core inside it, used as a bootstrap processor and watchdog. Refer to free electron's posts on hard drives.

Oh, so the Terminator has a hard drive for its memory? Hmm what a flawed design for a military defense application! Why not SSD or some quantum memory device?

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Re: Iron Man: Powered by Lego Mindstorms
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2014, 04:58:20 am »
Even that will need a bootstrap controller to start it up, or to recover from a soft failure.
 


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