30 Mar
2007
30 Mar
'07
10:23 a.m.
On 30 Mar 2007 at 0:00, Steve Thatcher wrote:
it was the 1967 issue of Electronics Illustrated that
was sold on eBay (not Radio-Electronics)
I remember reading that article when it came out. I recall the neon-
bulb ring counters--they looked like a nightmare to get right and
something that would eventually require more tweaking as the bulbs
aged.
There were other "computers" that made their showing at science
fairs. One was a tic-tac-toe playing design that, IIRC, used Stroger
switches (something that might have also worked for the calculator
shown in the magazine article).
Around the same time, I also seem to recall a "morse code typewriter"
design, complete with a keyboard fabricated from individual switches.
It may have been in Radio-Electronics. Anyone remember it?
Cheers,
Chuck