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Digi-Comp beats a textbook anyday   Message List  
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Re: [Friends of DigiComp] Digi-Comp beats a textbook anyday

> DEC's (Digital Equipment Corp) Computer Lab is a much more practical
> device,
> but is essentially unavailable, see
> http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/dec/computer_lab/

Seems simple enough to re-make!

I haven't searched vry hard, but the biggest challenge looks like finding
a (soft )copy of the Workbook.
Mon May 11, 2009 12:21 am

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I am a college student and have been teaching myself boolean algebra, digital circuit design, and some computer theory. I find the stuff fascinating, but hard... 		journey_man01
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... Very well said, and I heartily agree. I feel the same way about Lego. With my Lego in the 1960s I could build a plane, spaceship, boat, building...just...
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... Somehow I missed Digi-Comp when I was growing up in the 1960s, but my father designed process control computers so I did okay. DEC's (Digital Equipment...
Ric Werme
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11:53 pm

... Seems simple enough to re-make! I haven't searched vry hard, but the biggest challenge looks like finding a (soft )copy of the Workbook....
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Try a Radio Shack kit, Models "28-278","28-280" (and maybe "28-281"). You can get them on eBay for much less than retail. Much easier than rebuilding something...
Neil Morrison
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