21 Jan
2004
21 Jan
'04
6:58 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, John Allain wrote:
I wish I had the time. But it really is quite a clever design. And a
great way to get one started in mechanical computing elements (which is
what the DigiComp 1 is, made by ESR, the same company that made Dr. Nim).
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That's
been done (sort of). It's called Dr. Nim :)
They come up on eBay periodically.
I've haven't seen Dr. Nim work**
I have a few still pictures here, from eBay, but not the machine.
Can somebody make a small .mpg file of it working?