I wonder if a company that has aluminum plates if they could duplicate DC1. Even with the red and white colors. I am sure that a laser guided computer that the...
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benzene_80
Jun 9, 1999 1:07 am
What was this and how did it work....
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kevin_n_lori
Jun 9, 1999 2:59 am
Think-A-Dot was another item made by ESR. It was a small game, standing roughly 6 inches tall, 6 inches wide, and about an inch deep. It had 8 round windows on...
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benzene_80
Jun 9, 1999 11:15 pm
Has anyone ever seen the Tinker to tic tac toe computer that appears in the blinkenlights website....
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benzene_80
Jun 9, 1999 11:19 pm
My DC1 in the late 60's came with springs and not rubber bands. I used rubber bands because the springs wore out. Which came first the spring or the rubber...
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wabmester
Jun 10, 1999 12:19 am
I beleive you can see the machine in person at<br>the Boston Computer Museum. It was designed<br>by Danny Hillis (founder of Thinking Machines,<br>now at ...
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kevin_n_lori
Jun 10, 1999 12:53 am
I have a book called "The Tinker Toy Computer" which discusses it in one of the chapters. <br><br>There were actually two Tinker Toy computers. The first was a...
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craiglonghurst
Jun 11, 1999 11:57 am
Hi Kevin,<br><br>Wow ! A discussion group for Digicomp !<br><br>I've been searching all over the net for information on this.<br><br>Could I trouble you to...
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kevin_n_lori
Jun 11, 1999 1:04 pm
I'll send you the patents when I get home this evening.<br><br>As for locating a Digi-Comp 1, they have been showing up on eBay quite frequently....
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craiglonghurst
Jun 11, 1999 1:13 pm
Kevin,<br><br>Thanks, I look forward to reading through the patents.<br><br>$400 !!! ouch, looks like I'll definitely have a go at making one...<br><br>Apart...
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benzene_80
Jun 11, 1999 11:15 pm
As more and more DC1 appear on ebay the price will start falling. There were as many as 3 or 4 at one time....
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lszhoo
Jun 14, 1999 3:02 am
Speaking of ebay, I have just posted a new machine for sale. I beg to differ with Benzene's predicition about price. I find it quite interesting, that in spite...
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benzene_80
Jun 14, 1999 10:18 pm
Iszhoo you have a point. However one unit sold for less than 300 dollars recently. I think that more and more people are discovering eBay. So instead of the...
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mtee42
Jun 18, 1999 9:00 pm
I just joined this group yesterday and I wanted to introduce myself.<br><br>Earlier this week, while visiting my dad, I came across my old DigiComp1. I had ...
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benzene_80
Jun 20, 1999 12:09 am
As I stated before my computer came with springs. I found that rubber bands worked better. It seems that the computer initially came with rubber bands....
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peter_ansoff
Jun 20, 1999 5:48 pm
Mine came with rubber bands. I've noticed from the EBay auctions that there seem to have been two different "editions"; of the DC1, one in a flat box and one in...
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benzene_80
Jun 21, 1999 4:37 pm
The box my computer came in seems to have been different from the two you discribed above. It was smaller than both. I got my rubber bands from a pharmacy....
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tbsmith956
Jun 25, 1999 10:00 pm
Does anyone have a DC2 manual I can get a copy of? I've written a visual basic DC2 simulator utilizing the patent info and the few changes obvious in the...
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beyondparsley
Jun 27, 1999 2:09 am
No manual here, but on behalf of everyone here I hope you'll share your work - even as a work in progress. It may be the closest to a DC2 that most of us will...
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mrklingon
Jun 30, 1999 2:31 pm
I actually have owned two - the one I got for Christmas in.. um,<br>1965? and one I bought myself from Edmund. The one that is still intact has springs and ...
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kevin_n_lori
Jun 30, 1999 4:54 pm
I'm sure it's not possible to code every possible truth table on the Digicomp 1 with only the six logic gates provided. I've run into several examples that ...
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kevin_n_lori
Jun 30, 1999 5:09 pm
> I'd like to know ... if the digicomp really is like any "real" computer. It seems pretty unique to me.<br><br>It is exactly like a "real" computer, though...
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Linhardt
Jun 30, 1999 10:59 pm
I seem to have such a manual.<br><br>If I scan it for you, will you send me a copy<br>of your simulator?...
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kevin_n_lori
Jul 1, 1999 1:13 am
I also would be very interested in a copy of the DC 2 manual. If you could make a photocopy, I'd be more than happy to pay for copying and mailing costs. You...
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beyondparsley
Jul 1, 1999 2:29 pm
I imagine you're going to get quite a few requests for that manual! I wonder, if you really mean "scan" it, whether we couldn't just take the scans and put...
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mrklingon
Jul 1, 1999 7:03 pm
<<<br>It wouldn't be hard to create a compiler--the process for turning a truth table into a DC 1 program is spelled out in great detail in the Advanced ...
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mrklingon
Jul 1, 1999 7:15 pm
<<While I don't expect to see a port of "Doom" for it anytime soon, the DigiComp 1 is a very real (and very unique) computer>><br><br>I don't deny...
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kevin_n_lori
Jul 1, 1999 7:51 pm
<< It isn't exactly amenable to procedural languages. It resembles programming the logic in a chip, more than programming a "conventional" computer. ...
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tbsmith956
Jul 6, 1999 10:29 am
Sorry for the delay in answering you post, I've been on travel. If you can get me a copy of the DC2 manual I will gladly send you the first copy of the ...
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whiteshark_58
Jul 16, 1999 6:43 pm
> I would be happy to email the patents (in PDF format) to anyone who<br>> asks for them. <br><br>Please email them to me. I'm new to this forum and am ...
