Re: Anyone (else) own a Geniac/Brainiac?

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From: pkla... Peter Klammer
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1990 05:36

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In article <8...@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> a...@grendal.EBay.Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) writes:
>[...]
>I didn't have a Braniac though I remember the ads well.  I did have the red
>plastic flip flop computer kit (from Edmund?).  It had a series of inter-
>connecting flip flops that were programmed by adding or removing plastic
>stubs.  It had a three digit binary readout.  This was in 1965 and took me

Me, too!  It was called a DigiComp (-I?).  Anybody want to sell me one, or
sell me pictures enough to maybe recreate one?

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From: pkla...@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Peter Klammer)
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Subject: Re: Anyone (else) own a Geniac/Brainiac?
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Date: 9 Feb 90 05:36:03 GMT
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