Comments on: GENIAC (Oct, 1958) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/29/geniac/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: FredM http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/29/geniac/comment-page-1/#comment-1082802 FredM Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:21:04 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4867#comment-1082802 I was fascinated with the idea of a home made computer, so I bugged my parents to get me one for Christmas. This was 1960-61, so I was 11-12 years old. Now I know why I never got the machine to play Tic-Tac-Toe! I still remember the smell of Masonite, the brass jumpers, and tightening all those screws and nuts! I was fascinated with the idea of a home made computer, so I bugged my parents to get me one for Christmas. This was 1960-61, so I was 11-12 years old. Now I know why I never got the machine to play Tic-Tac-Toe!

I still remember the smell of Masonite, the brass jumpers, and tightening all those screws and nuts!

]]> By: Glenn E. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/29/geniac/comment-page-1/#comment-1067118 Glenn E. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:10:28 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4867#comment-1067118 Most of the manual's circuits worked, except for the Tic Tac Toe wiring diagram. Which had a few errors that I didn't fine for years. Apparently, there was no quality check or proof read of this. I was very disappointed as a young boy, when what took me weeks to wire up, didn't work. I hope the manual's author was proud of himself, screwing with young minds like that. Years later, while an Air Force technical school, I researched the design again, and discovered the diagram's errors. Then I made a program for my TI-57 programmable calculator, that did the same thing the deck switches were doing. It displayed each move as a grid number. And 2nd player's moves were entered as such. If it won. it flashed the final winning grid number. Most of the manual’s circuits worked, except for the Tic Tac Toe wiring diagram. Which had a few errors that I didn’t fine for years. Apparently, there was no quality check or proof read of this. I was very disappointed as a young boy, when what took me weeks to wire up, didn’t work. I hope the manual’s author was proud of himself, screwing with young minds like that. Years later, while an Air Force technical school, I researched the design again, and discovered the diagram’s errors. Then I made a program for my TI-57 programmable calculator, that did the same thing the deck switches were doing. It displayed each move as a grid number. And 2nd player’s moves were entered as such. If it won. it flashed the final winning grid number.

]]> By: Tim http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/07/29/geniac/comment-page-1/#comment-1066906 Tim Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:36:16 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=4867#comment-1066906 Short Wikipedia entry on this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac Short Wikipedia entry on this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac

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