"How to build a working digital computer" - Anyone with copies?

From: ed sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Sun Jun 27 00:42:57 2004

yea the title is correct, and there are all kinds of paperclips in the
picture on the cover..... if all else fails, and yes please after all other
possibilities are exhausted... I can tear the front off the display to get
to it if needed!


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Megan" <mbg_at_TheWorld.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: "How to build a working digital computer" - Anyone with copies?


> I have a copy... it was meant to read a program from "drum" memory,
> a coffee can covered by a piece of paper with the appropriate holes
> cut it in so paper-clip "brushes" made contact. The problem is that
> you then had to (if I remember correctly) make the changes in the
> states of the 'flip-flops' yourself and move to the next instruction...
>
> I'll have to find it and check it out...
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
>
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