Simon? (Re: Blast from the Past)

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Marvin Johnston wrote:
> > How did Simon differ from other simple relay machines, like the first
> > Stibitiz calculators?  It was more general purpose, it was portable, and
> > it was popularized in the press.  13 articles on Simon appeared in
> > Radio-Electronics in 1950 and 1951.
>
> Is there any information about the architecture of this
> machine on the web? A brief googling doesn't seem to turn
> up anything with much detail.

Build your own Simon!

http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/simon/

This link and many others found in the VCF Link Library.  If you can't
find something with Google, try using the VCF Link Library (now with
handy-dandy search feature) and it just may trump Google ;)

http://www.vintage.org/links.php

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