[net.wanted] Digicomp I

lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (08/24/85)

I wouldn't normally post this reply back to this group, but the
Digicomp I is such a beauty that I couldn't resist.  I still
have one--it sits in my machine room.  I don't know where the 
documentation is anymore--but the odds are that it's around here
somewhere--I'm careful never to throw out stuff like that.  I had
some minor problems with mine.  A minor crack in the plastic which
I easily fixed years ago, and the loss of all the springs that
held back the selector rods.  I replaced all the springs with 
little rubberbands from my retainer I was wearing at the time
(we're talking mucho YEARS ago, gang) which made the unit somewhat harder 
to cycle (the springs had much less tension than the rubberbands) but it
still worked fine.  One interesting feature of the unit was that you
could change the logic sense by pulling open the top and replacing the
red plastic logic levers -- so you could get AND/OR/NOT for each of the 8
levels.

It's definitely a collector's item now.  I would be unwilling to 
part with it permanently, but I might be willing to lend it out
on some basis for copying -- but that wouldn't be an easy copying
job.

--Lauren--