Digi-Comp I Redux

This Thing is my tribute to the individuals from the 1950's and 60's that helped to promote computer learning by marketing simple electric/mechanical "computing" devices. While not what we would consider true computers by today's standards, these machines were ingeniously designed, shipped with well written and instructive manuals, and most importantly were affordable to the average person.

Lately I have been making replicas of some of these classic "computers". Originals are now rare and very expensive to buy when they infrequently appear for sale on eBay. In fact most of my replicas were modeled from photos because I could not find or afford an original.

Today's Thing is a little different. It's a brand new machine that is a "mashup" of the following classics:

Digi-Comp I: My new design is mostly based on the mechanics and "programming model" from this machine. Digi-Comp II: The look and feel of the new machine came from both my Digi-Comp II