From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:28:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87sgzw885x.fsf@elephly.net> References: <877eh81tm4.fsf@ITSx01.pdp10.guru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gP1P7-0002Dt-Hp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:29:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gP1P3-0005C2-JC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:29:05 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21110) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gP1P3-00057B-8W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 03:29:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <877eh81tm4.fsf@ITSx01.pdp10.guru> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: jeremiah@pdp10.guru Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org jeremiah@pdp10.guru writes: >> for the lazyer like me, what about a punched card? :-) > If someone is willing to figure out how to read a deck of punched cards > without software, I'd be interested in learning more. Now that=E2=80=99s a project for a free hardware design that I=E2=80=99d ha= ppily work on :) Reading and transmitting of the bitstream can be done in hardware alone (shift register, MUX, photoresistors, =E2=80=A6), though I=E2=80=99d need t= o know what kind of interface there is on the receiving side. Just flash memory / TTL shift register? -- Ricardo