Cranford, NJ
Quoted from oldtowner:It occurred to me a while back, while looking inside one of my EM pins, that Edison's crew could have made one of these back in the 1890s. It's basically electromagnetic coils, switches, wire, cams, wood, screws, springs, small electric bulbs, glass, bits of metal, paint, and a small electric motor.
I read somewhere on another pinball forum a comment from someone saying how much he preferred the old EM analog machines better than the modern digital ones....and it hit me like a brick:
These old EM machines aren't analog at all...they're 100% digital. Sure, they're not digital in the sense of ICs, base-2 calculations, and-gates, or-gates, nor-gates, etc., but they're absolutely digital all the same! Everything is on-or-off. "1" or "0". Not a single component has an "in between" or a "maybe".....it's all just switches. Open or closed. The very definition of digital.
Really very cool when you stop to think about it...
