Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Osmium" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: wearable computers from the sixties - who knew? Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:22:43 -0600 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net HfyiZ7U6BcZcTJUydyjnHQpsmQ3rbWAIvoiGfDrRHLP+b9M22N Cancel-Lock: sha1:GTEmraB/TTIN0aYw4pu7srINw1s= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:1902 alt.folklore.computers:156969 "Michael Black" wrote: news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1601181528070.28287@darkstar.example.org... > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Lewis wrote: > >> In message >> Michael Black wrote: >>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, M. John Matlaw wrote: >> >>>> The thing that piqued my interest was someone figuring out a way to >>>> increase >>>> their chances in roulette. Wouldn't have thought that possible. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> That wasn't really a computer, just a timer of some sort. >> >> It was certainly more than a simple stopwatch. It computed. So... >> > The article mentioned a specific number of transistors, I think five. > > You really can't do much with 5 transistors. I read that book when it came out and I have been bothered by the factual basis of this thread from the get go, it doesn't match my memory. The system included various bits and pieces, parts were in the shoe, parts were strapped around the chest and there may have been even more.Here is a bit from the book: "[The unit] would hold the microprocessor, EPROM and RAMS needed for operating the roulette algorithm. The other unit would hold a clock, five logic chips, and the transistors and amplifier by which the compiler talked ... " https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9aOedEfOMMC&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=Eudaemonic+five+transistors&source=bl&ots=ln_iGedyVU&sig=84MmvecsQs_PgHqtnJw1SsZ4MkE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-ha6imbXKAhUM5CYKHfbdCUEQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Eudaemonic%20five%20transistors&f=false