17 Jul
1998
17 Jul
'98
2:01 p.m.
Due to popular demand, I have finally gotten around to
adding the DIGI-COMP 1 Assembly Instructions to the
collection of other scanned DIGI-COMP 1 manual pages at
http://galena.tjs.org/digicomp/ . They are all 300 DPI
grayscale images - in other words, huge! The parts list
alone (Page 1) should be immensely helpful for those
wishing to create their own DIGI-COMP.
Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me over the past few
days!
Tom
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17 Jul
17 Jul
2:09 p.m.
Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom!
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
time for me to get out the acrylic and start cutting...
-Eric
again, thanks for the scans
tomsaddressformaillists(a)altavista.net wrote:
Due to popular demand, I have finally gotten around to
adding the DIGI-COMP 1 Assembly Instructions to the
collection of other scanned DIGI-COMP 1 manual pages at
http://galena.tjs.org/digicomp/ . They are all 300 DPI
grayscale images - in other words, huge! The parts list
alone (Page 1) should be immensely helpful for those
wishing to create their own DIGI-COMP.
3:04 p.m.
tomsaddressformaillists(a)altavista.net wrote:
Due to popular demand, I have finally gotten around to
adding the DIGI-COMP 1 Assembly Instructions to the
collection of other scanned DIGI-COMP 1 manual pages at
http://galena.tjs.org/digicomp/ . They are all 300 DPI
grayscale images - in other words, huge! The parts list
alone (Page 1) should be immensely helpful for those
wishing to create their own DIGI-COMP.
Thanks to everyone who e-mailed me over the past few
days!
Tom
--
This account is used so mailing lists don't
clutter up Tom's real account. If you really
want to talk to Tom, use tom(at)galena.tjs.org
Thank you sir. Though I wasn't one of those who emailed (I was away
for a while, and haven't had time to go through the list traffic that
piled up while I was out), I am grateful. I had a Digicomp I back in
my kidhood, shortly before Star Trek started promising talking
computers. I'll have another if I have to whittle the parts out of
wood.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
7:31 p.m.
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 tomsaddressformaillists(a)altavista.net wrote:
Due to popular demand, I have finally gotten around
to
adding the DIGI-COMP 1 Assembly Instructions to the
collection of other scanned DIGI-COMP 1 manual pages at
http://galena.tjs.org/digicomp/ .
That is very cool. A little net.homework tells me there was also a
digi-comp 2, which sounds even cooler:
<< I actually owned such a monstrosity, although it was a kit rather than
a DIY project. I've forgotten the manufacturer, but the product was
called the DigiComp II. It involved marbles rolling down an inclined
board, wherein were mounted plastic flipflops that actually flipped (or
flopped) as a marble passed them. If I remember correctly, the word size
was 12 bits. I definitely remember an accumulator and an MQ register (set
with non-flipping switches), so the thing could at least add and multiply.
It was not, of course, stored-program, but it was a true digital computer,
and binary to boot.
>
Who has one?!
-- Doug
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