Sorry, this was accidentally sent before it was completed.
At 04:40 PM 2/13/2015, Tom Sparks wrote:
I've been bouncing around the idea of building my
own relay computer
I built a greatly scaled down version of Simon more than 50 years ago. See Chapter 3 in:
Edmund Callis Berkeley
Giant Brains, or Machines That Think
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1949; Reprinted New York, Science Editions, Inc.,
1961
Available in DejaVu format at:
https://ia600504.us.archive.org/17/items/GiantBrains/giant_brains.djvu
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html