I have a spare Digi-Comp1 that I`m willing to sell if anyone is intrested. It is unassembled and as new in box. There are no books or instructions. I would...
Hi Folks, I too grew up with the DigiComp I, back in the late '60's. I've always thought it had a lot of potential... ...if only it worked a little more...
Hi Tim, I don't have that original toy myself. My brother only has it. I want to and am also thinking about building a 4 bits of state Digi- Comp 1. I am...
Hi William, Glad to find a kindred spirit. I have high-resolution, high-contrast scans of the DigiComp I parts. I know there are programs that take "raster"...
In fact, Illustrator can export files as DXF -- Autocad Exchange format which I know CNC Laser cutters prefer (I've had some acrylic gears cut before). ...
Hi Tim, I am still interested in the high-resolution scans with original parts' dimensions (measurements) displayed. My main goal is to stretch the DigiComp...
We are working on getting outlines from our high resolution scans. I just asked my colleague who his laser cutter guy is. He made the body of a robot out of...
Tim, Very Interesting! What kind of plastic does the original Digi-Comp 1 have? What about parts' thickness? Noah Spurrier mentioned a free TURBOCAD...
Acrylic (Plexiglas brand) cuts beautifully on a laser. As a side effect of the cut the laser actually polishes the edges. Another material to consider --...
Hi William, http://www.filener.com/ is a link to the commercial laser cutter guy my colleague used for his robot project. ... From: William A. Des Lauriers ...
Hi Bill, Yes, at lower power settings a laser cutter can ablate material away from the surface of the work piece, though I don't know what the resulting ...
I have not seen a DigiComp up close, but it looks like styrene (maybe ABS). Could also be PVC. It's probably something cheap and soft like that. I had...
Interesting. It looks from the photo that in this unit, every one of those pesky springs have been replaced with rubber bands. Also, it looks like some...
The Links section has http://galena.tjs.org/galena/digicomp as a link to a digicomp manual. It may be broken. (I'll try again later) Can someone upload a...
That would be great. You should be able to upload. I just uploaded a test picture of my dog to the files section. (I deleted it immediately.) gilkenator ... ...
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I seached through the archives and found several references to patents on the Digicomp1 and other devices. Can someone post the patent numbers so I can try to ...
... The Digicomp 1 patent for a "mechanical binary digital computer" is 3,273,794. Digicomp 2's patent # is 3,390,471 Finally, Think-a-Dot ("computer-type game...
Does anyone have, and can anyone post, a map of the lower-level board in the DigiComp II? The DC2 manual unfortunately omits this, and it's difficult to...
I Emulator for DG1 is in files DIGI.ZIP works on windows needs VBrun200.dll I would like to see the DG2 emulator if anybody could upload. I had an email...
I saw this item for sale at eBay, The World's Online Marketplace TM, and thought that you might be interested. Please let me know if I shouldn't pass these on...
Thanks for sending out these patent numbers. If you have ever cursed those pesky metal springs, I thought you might like to know that the original Digicomp I...
Hi... this is Tom Smith, the author of the DG2 emulator. Let the group know that I will be making the DG2 emulator available for download from my web site in...
Wow, this item has been bid up to $310! Maybe we should collectively look into commisioning a new manufacturing run of the DigiComp I. I know there are molded...
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