Great video. love the UsagiElectric cameo. I don't remember the Digitor in elementary school. I do remember the Little Professor Calculator which came out in 1976.
the knob on the left seems to control the range of the second number. when you had it on 0-3 you always got A + 0, 1, 2, or 3. and then after you increased it you kept getting A + 4,5,6.
I definitely saw one of these in the back of the classroom when I was like in first or second grade (so, 1987-1989?). I remember teaching myself some very simple multiplication on the device (basically just multiplying by 1).
What a glorious piece of machinery. I enjoyed learning math. I expect this device could have tricked a few more children into getting good at math who would have preferred to play video games.
I found one these in the attic today when I installing a new attic fan. It very cool looking. Serial no 000329. Doesn't have the no function words on the knobs? Going to clean it and give it a try. I do remember seeing this in school over 50 + years ago but wasn't interested in it. Guess that why I ended up a labor. Thanks for showing how to use it.😮
"I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face." --Cave Johnson That's some really Fran-tastically funky design! I wonder how it's built - maybe you could fix it too. t clearly uses a panaplex display, this one is in a very good condition - all segments crisp clean, no cathode poisoning.
Would this device be considered the first computerised electronic learning game? It predates electronic learning games like Little Professor and Speak & Spell by a number of years. The name Digitor particularly interests me, and I'll tell you why. Digitor was a house brand of the Australian electronics retailer Dick Smith Electronics. They used the Digitor brand name to market many cheap consumer electronic goods such as portable radios, tape recorders, TVs, and DVD players etc, so to see that name on a device like this is very curious to me.
i think i have like 6 of these and instructions. also have 4 vectrex., atari, intellivision. imsai 8080 from war games the movie. and tons of old computer stuff.
I think you missed an important point on the origin of "emoji". The word has nothing to do with "emotion" this is just an English speaker's construction. In Japanese the word "e" means picture and the word "moji" means symbol. Emojis were, and are, images represented by single symbols. Look at some of Shigetaka's original pictures: telephone, headphones, scissors etc. These do not convey emotions. The idea was for a standard set of pictures that could be identified with a single character and therefore communicated very briefly.
@usagiElectric hahaha what a brilliant surprise.
I think the “flashing” is due to the bulb having a bad connection. It occasionally went a little brighter. As you say just age.
Great video. love the UsagiElectric cameo. I don't remember the Digitor in elementary school. I do remember the Little Professor Calculator which came out in 1976.
Great to see Usagi there!
the knob on the left seems to control the range of the second number. when you had it on 0-3 you always got A + 0, 1, 2, or 3. and then after you increased it you kept getting A + 4,5,6.
Indeed, i noticed same. There's a 0-9 setting also
That makes some sense, because I remember using it to multiply by 1, so I must have set it to 0-3 or something like that.
Saw the Digitor in person last Thursday. It wasn't near an outlet, so we didn't get it to see it action. Loved the museum!
I definitely saw one of these in the back of the classroom when I was like in first or second grade (so, 1987-1989?). I remember teaching myself some very simple multiplication on the device (basically just multiplying by 1).
What a glorious piece of machinery. I enjoyed learning math. I expect this device could have tricked a few more children into getting good at math who would have preferred to play video games.
our learning resource room had some of those in our school
cool device....digitor..looks like it would appear on space 1999 or Logans run.. very cool!!!
Thank you for making the distinction between emoticons and emoji.
I found one these in the attic today when I installing a new attic fan. It very cool looking. Serial no 000329. Doesn't have the no function words on the knobs? Going to clean it and give it a try. I do remember seeing this in school over 50 + years ago but wasn't interested in it. Guess that why I ended up a labor. Thanks for showing how to use it.😮
"I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face." --Cave Johnson
That's some really Fran-tastically funky design! I wonder how it's built - maybe you could fix it too. t clearly uses a panaplex display, this one is in a very good condition - all segments crisp clean, no cathode poisoning.
Would this device be considered the first computerised electronic learning game? It predates electronic learning games like Little Professor and Speak & Spell by a number of years. The name Digitor particularly interests me, and I'll tell you why. Digitor was a house brand of the Australian electronics retailer Dick Smith Electronics. They used the Digitor brand name to market many cheap consumer electronic goods such as portable radios, tape recorders, TVs, and DVD players etc, so to see that name on a device like this is very curious to me.
I remember the Borg Warner System80 but I don't remember the program cards.
Did Someone Say Centurion?
I was just thinking...
"TOASTY!!!"
i think i have like 6 of these and instructions. also have 4 vectrex., atari, intellivision. imsai 8080 from war games the movie. and tons of old computer stuff.
The light bulb probably needs to be replaced, considering the "wrong" indicator is still _very_ bright.
Those seem more like okudagrams than emoji.
I think you missed an important point on the origin of "emoji". The word has nothing to do with "emotion" this is just an English speaker's construction. In Japanese the word "e" means picture and the word "moji" means symbol. Emojis were, and are, images represented by single symbols. Look at some of Shigetaka's original pictures: telephone, headphones, scissors etc. These do not convey emotions. The idea was for a standard set of pictures that could be identified with a single character and therefore communicated very briefly.
Looks like something from the first Flash Gordon episodes lol
Did I see a bunny?
Follow he White Rabbit!