6 Nov
2001
6 Nov
'01
7:19 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 09:40:49AM -0800, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Erector sets were a BIG box of small pieces of metal,
with nuts, bolts,
axles, gears, electric motor, etc. Still a great prototyping system.
(One of the PcJRs that I sold at VCF came from IBM as a diskless system -
the drive mounted in it was mounted with Erector set pieces.)
Ha, you try to post off-topic messages and they become on-topic again.
Several differential analyzers were built out of Meccano parts -- Meccano
being the British version of the Erector set. You probably couldn't do it
with just one box, though.
http://www.maths.irl.cri.nz/history/contents.html
http://www.maths.irl.cri.nz/history/analyser.jpg
http://www.voyager.co.nz/~abe/NZ/earnz1.htm
http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/meccano/mecint.html
-- Derek
