15 Sep
1997
15 Sep
'97
8:36 p.m.
At 07:19 AM 9/15/97 -0700, you wrote:
Here's one from the past:
What is the name of that toy mechanical digital computer
that was advertised in the back of many magazines and
catalogs like Edmunds Scientific and other tech hobby ones,
I believe in the early 70's. It was the size of a shoebox,
came unassembled, and had lots of moving parts. Sorry,
that's all I remember. But I think I saw one in the
Computer Museum in Boston several years ago.
That would be the "DigiComp-1". Red plastic with slices of soda straws
that you slip over tabs to "load" a program.
Had one, lost it, would love to have one again...
-jim
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