4 Jan
2005
4 Jan
'05
10:55 p.m.
At 06:27 PM 1/4/2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
The first _electornic_ computer I ever wanted to build
was one that was basically a cascade of flip-flops made into an up counter. The input
device was a telephone dial.
Hah! As a tike, I remember wiring an old dial as a switch with
a battery and a lamp, and thinking it was an adding computer because
if I dialed one number, held the dial in place, then dialed
the second number, then released the dial, the lamp would
blink the answer. :-)
- John