Photo Questions

[John Foust]

At 06:27 PM 1/4/2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
>The first _electornic_ computer I ever wanted to build was one that was basically a cascade of flip-flops made into an up counter.  The input device was a telephone dial.  

Hah!  As a tike, I remember wiring an old dial as a switch with
a battery and a lamp, and thinking it was an adding computer because 
if I dialed one number, held the dial in place, then dialed
the second number, then released the dial, the lamp would
blink the answer.  :-)

- John