What PDF? ... From: sven [mailto:svendelft@...] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 9:43 PM To: friendsofdigicomp@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Friends of...
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McNerney, Tim
timothymcnerney
Jun 30, 2004 3:38 pm
From the CARDIAC web site (http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/contact.html) June 23, 2004 - PLEASE NOTE - I will be generally unavailable for answering email...
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Neil Morrison
neils_morr
Jun 30, 2004 4:43 pm
... From: "sven" <svendelft@...> ... I will try to scan the R/S version when I find it. Neil...
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pasodad@...
pasodad
Jun 30, 2004 6:47 pm
I represented the Digi-Comp 1 as a PLA or GAL type circuit. It's been in the group's Files area for a while as DC1-PLA.pdf. -Bob S. In a message dated...
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hudsonco1@...
mrjazzytampa
Jun 30, 2004 7:02 pm
I was never really that impressed with CARDIAC. It was only an 8-bit simulator and it had problems with its DMA. - Andrew [Non-text portions of this message...
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pasodad@...
pasodad
Jul 1, 2004 12:09 am
[Confused] The Bell Labs CARDIAC is a cardboard construction that teaches computer operation by putting the student in the role of the data processing unit....
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hudsonco1@...
mrjazzytampa
Jul 1, 2004 2:46 am
Don't be confused. It was a joke ;-) ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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davange992000
Jul 1, 2004 4:18 am
I've donated a little DigiCompI simulator for you guys to play with. It's a little bit clunky. I wrote it some years ago long after I lost my DigiCompI in a...
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lennypitt
Jul 1, 2004 4:18 am
I just found this group - thank you to all for such wonderful information. I've had a Dr. Nim since I was in 4th or 5th grade. My digi-comp however, has long...
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sharrisoncarter
Jul 1, 2004 1:41 pm
... I was feeling pedagogical, so I wrote up the development of a program for the riddle and uploaded the text to the Files area. I followed Bob's suggestion...
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Robert C. Martin
rmartinoma
Jul 1, 2004 5:13 pm
... The text of the problem reads: Three boys went on a fishing trip. The boys were Rom, Dick and Jim. When they returned they were asked who caught the...
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pasodad@...
pasodad
Jul 1, 2004 5:35 pm
David, Nice little program (in the Files area). It always surprises me when a program works on my machine. -Bob S. In a message dated 6/30/2004 9:44:05 PM...
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Mark McConnell
mmcconnell17704
Jul 1, 2004 6:25 pm
Great solution! I remember being stumped by the problem when I was 10, then solving it after I took a freshman logic course. The formulas below bring back...
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pasodad@...
pasodad
Jul 1, 2004 8:35 pm
That's why I like logic. Three approaches coming up with the same answers. Uncle Bob has the cleanest solution, but he didn't leave any work for the machine....
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davange992000
Jul 1, 2004 9:09 pm
Hi Bob S, Thanks for the compliment. The program was written nearly 10 years ago so it doesn't need a very powerful computer to run it. Since I've been looking...
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sven
molslaan
Jul 1, 2004 10:13 pm
[quote] I will try to scan the R/S version when I find it. Neil [/quote] Sounds great if you would do that. Could you tell me how well it resembles the...
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sharrisoncarter
Jul 2, 2004 12:25 am
... Please accept my applause as well. ... That would be nice. I recall being told of an "X" slider which joined a pair of the logic rods to the corresponding...
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sharrisoncarter
Jul 2, 2004 12:49 am
... Very nice! I would have liked having that lecture in my classwork. Are those steel balls in the photographs? The original glass mables that came with mine...
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davange992000
Jul 2, 2004 2:32 am
Harrison, You have me interrested in doing some 'enhancements' now to my little project. I might make it a little more attractive now that I have access to...
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davange992000
Jul 2, 2004 2:32 am
I had white glass marbles with mine and they worked fine until I took Dr. Nim to the beach one day and sand mucked up the mechanism. Could never get it right...
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David Coleman
davange992000
Jul 2, 2004 3:41 am
Harrison, Regarding your question about the 'crash' situation of simultaneously setting/resetting the same flip flop. ... if ((FlipFlopAResetClock exists) and...
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Bob Shepard
pasodad
Jul 2, 2004 8:35 am
Although I didn't do it, I considered using the crash condition (simultaneous set and reset) as a way to indicate a special result or the end of a program. It...
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lennypitt
Jul 2, 2004 12:36 pm
... Yes - as the mechanism has aged it seems that the original white marbles couldn't work their way through the mechanism. (Probably a good cleaning would...
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Mark McConnell
mmcconnell17704
Jul 2, 2004 1:41 pm
I had two. davange992000 <davange992000@...> wrote:Do you happen to know how many of the 'Y' sliders were provided with the original DigiCompI? ... Do...
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Robert C. Martin
rmartinoma
Jul 2, 2004 4:47 pm
Two. _____ From: Mark McConnell [mailto:mmcconnell17704@...] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 8:42 AM To: friendsofdigicomp@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re:...
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pasodad@...
pasodad
Jul 2, 2004 8:49 pm
I dug out my Cardiac, but I won't be able to scan it for a week or two. There are nearly 60 pages in the manual. I'll have to be creative in scanning the ...
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say_goodnight_dick
justoneword_...
Jul 2, 2004 9:02 pm
Bob, You may wish to use a digital camera & tripod to shoot hi-def photos of the oversized pages. This has worked well for me copying 12 3/8" x 12 5/16" LP...
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sven
molslaan
Jul 2, 2004 9:13 pm
I don't think that's a good idea. I've shot some photo's this way for my portfolio and they aren't that crips at all when enlarged. But if you send me the bits...
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say_goodnight_dick
justoneword_...
Jul 2, 2004 10:33 pm
Judge the quality for yourselves. Here is a link to a photo taken of a 12" x 12" LP cover that I took with a 5 MegaPixel digital camera. I'm no Ansel Adams,...
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sven
molslaan
Jul 3, 2004 2:12 pm
Ah... Well, that looks quite good. But the LP cover is quite large and there's no reference I can relate to. I've made some photo's with a 35 mm camera, a...
