3 bit computer for 2 bit nerds

It might not do much for your Folding@home score, but you can seriously up your geek cred with this 2.0 update to the classic DIGI-COMP I of the 60's. Originals go for upwards of $100 on E-Bay, but this new and improved version of the build-your-own-mechanical-computer goes for $50 and still crunches that Boolean logic like it's 1968.

[Via Retro Thing]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 3:10PM]

Can I play Doom on it?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 3:15PM]

LMAO. @ #1.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 4:00PM]

Does it run Linux?

(Sorry! Obligatory.)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 4:44PM]

Crunching boolean logic? Huh? I like crunching Boo Berry, is that the same thing?

http://www.sportsguynorth.blogspot.com

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 4:51PM]

how quaint: their website uses frames...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 5:07PM]

Hassen, sure you can play doom and tained you can run linux in its future series. Anyways, its $50.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 6:27PM]

This is getting a little too obsesive.

http://www.cranburypcrepair.com

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2006 10:58PM]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster... well, it would probably be faster than my windows box anyway.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 22nd 2006 6:25AM]

doom is pretty old, i wouldn't be surprised if it did tick over...

then again i'm sure we could create a wumpus mod to run on this...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 22nd 2006 7:32AM]

I actually bought (from the Edmund Scientific Co), built, and did some rudimentary 'programming' (ie, anything that a 4 function calculator could do in 1/10th the time today) on one of these in the late 1960s when i was in grammar school. Power was supplied by your hand - you pulled a tab on the side of the 'PC' and it moved the mechanical registers to make the calculations. Real Fred Flintston stuff.

[(Unverified) Posted May 21st 2006 5:54PM]

Just because you can point and click does not mean you know anything about computers or where they came from. Hey go as mommy for a new graphics card and shut up.