2 Mar
1999
2 Mar
'99
1:11 p.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
Yes, that was more or less what I was thinking. My point was that IF you
could get the switches to switch automatically (and the drum to turn) you
would have a truly useful, automatic computer. Maybe with enough extra
knife switches you could pull it off? :)
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Dave Dameron wrote:
The drum was a
metal can with contacts to 20 or so flashlight lamps.
Segments of the drum were covered up with tape so various lamps were lit
as one rotated the drum. The lamps were instructions for you to switch
the various knife switches, you rotated the drum to see the steps to
take.
Ah, that must be what Derek meant. I didn't really look at the drum
section, so I assumed it was magnetic. scan a pic this week. It's really an amazing
coincidence: same drum, same
simulated core, simular looking ALU, ....
Maybe the company is the same?
Maybe the brochure authors just ripped off the design? :)
-- Derek