Carlos Rodrigues 🪣 on Nostr: If you've seen the inside of a ZX Spectrum, you might have come across the Ferranti ...

If you've seen the inside of a ZX Spectrum, you might have come across the Ferranti name – it was the manufacturer of the Spectrum's ULA (and others').

Here's a rather zany documentary (the best kind) from ~1983, where a very british narrator explains chipmaking to the ghost of Sebastian Ferranti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJtCXMESWag

It seems to be missing the last few minutes, but don't mind that. 👌

Are they talking about FPGAs near the end?

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