My interest with DigiComp comes from my obsession with trying to design
mechanical logic gates. I want something that does NOT rely on marbles rolling
through, but mechanical rods or gears. This would work just fine, as long as
there was some kind of buffer that will copy an input to an output without
putting any back-pressure on the input, and producing a delay (for feedback). I
could make a mechanical computer that would only need a crank to power it (for
the buffers).

I thought this would be the place to share this idea, but so far nobody seems to
care :P
But perhaps an electromechanical engineer does? I have a diagram:
From here: http://groups.google.com/group/shkaboinka/files click on "logic.bmp"

--- In friendsofdigicomp@yahoogroups.com, Fred Hatfield <hatfield@...> wrote:
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> Yes, yes, yes!
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> Can you detail your progress along with some graphics of your piece
> parts and drawings?  I would love to develop along with you and hopefully
> assemble a machine like this at the same time.  There might even be
> a benefit if some of the other members here participated in such a "group
> development"  with feedback.
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> Just a suggestion -- it  would be great if we could follow along...
>  
> Fred.
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> --- On Fri, 5/15/09, profpetrof <profpetrof@...> wrote:
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> From: profpetrof <profpetrof@...>
> Subject: [Friends of DigiComp] Super-Digi-Comp 8Bit Flip flop
> To: friendsofdigicomp@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 2:19 AM
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> Hi all, I am an electro-mechanical engineer, and I am simply fascinated by the
> digi-comp.
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> I have just built a laser CNC cut stainless steel version, will post video and
> photo's as soon as I can, but now I am on to a bigger task.
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> Upscaling the digi-comp to a super digicomp.
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> I am thinking 8 flip-flops (the sliding 1's and 0's) and at least 20
> logic banks (clock rods).
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> Any thoughts on this?
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> Regards, and keep up the good work.
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> Andries
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