Reply to post: Cheers...

Happy birthday, ARM1. It is 35 years since Britain's Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time

Red Ted
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Cheers...

I'll drink to that.

If I recall correctly the first one appeared to draw no power at all, and it turned out the power supply wasn't wired to the chip correctly. However it could draw enough power through inputs that were driven high to operate.

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