Antikythera fans

[Randy Dawson]

Vern, Robert,

I have been collecting the books for a while, see Derek De Sola Price for the original detailed description. pictures here

http://markandvinny.com/derek/

There are a few animated java things on the net too if you look a bit.

What I plan to do, is as best I can create the woodwork and the case, all of the mechanism and perhaps sell a few copies as mantle toys.

I will prototype a bit and cad what I can in the goal of sending it out to some shops.

We have a cool shared cadcam group here in portland to do this, a subscription prototype shop with all the machines.

Like all embryo projects, its just and idea, but the interest you have shown spurs me on.

Lets see where it goes,

Thanks,

Randy

> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:46:44 -0500
> From: gstreet at indy.net
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Antikythera fans
> 
> Hi Vern and Randy,
> 
> I'm also interested in the Antikythera project. I _think_ I ordered the book, "Decoding the Heavens," but I won't know until it actually arrives. Ordered it indirectly via Amazon.com, but my money was soon quickly and unceremoniously refunded. I think and hope I then found another copy via bookfinder.com. I recently received an email claiming that it has been sent.
> 
> Making something like this must be pretty prohibitively expensive wouldn't it?
> 
> Still, I am interested.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert Greenstreet
> 
> 
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:39:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: Vernon Wright <vern4wright at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Antikythera fans
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> 	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Message-ID: <278829.9301.qm at web65503.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
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> 
> Hi Randy,
> 
> I responded quite favorably to your proposal. I'm wondering whether you got any other people really interested in the Antikythera device, and whether you are going to go on with the project.
> 
> It'll probably be a couple of months before my shop is workable again; moving and all that. But I am interested.
> 
> Regards,
> Vern Wright
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Randy Dawson <rdawson16 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Randy Dawson <rdawson16 at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Antikythera fans
> > To: "classic computers" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> > Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 7:30 PM
> > wondering if you guys love this as much as I do.
> > 
> > I would like to make a user group/club for it if there is
> > enough interest
> > 
> > For myself, I am fully equipped here with machine
> > capability and stage one is to make the model (2005) as
> > currently known.
> > 
> > Stage 2 is heck make these in volume, its a marvelous thing
> > and may be profitable.
> > 
> > You cannot find a better classic computer than this.
> > 
> > Randy Dawson

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