Diagnostics
I have a working processor that is hardwired to just do NOP, but it's something!
I was having all sorts of problems with the 555 timers. In the videos and the tech diagrams it shows pulling pin 4 high to keep it from resetting from stray voltage. But that was causing the chips to run hot and the cycles to bee all sorts of weird. So when I disconnected pin 4 everything on the astable circuit worked right. I'm still having some bounce issues with the monostable circuit if I use a smaller than 1uF capacitor for a 1 second delay, so I'll need to get some more caps in to play with that. But it's progress!