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Legos or Lincoln Logs

Which did you like more?

  • Legos

    Votes: 9 69.2%
  • Lincoln Logs

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Other

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • Total voters
    13
Definitely Legos. I feel like you can do so much more with them.
 
I liked to play with Lincoln Logs, building houses was fun.
 
Anybody else remember these?

Erector%20Ferris%20Wheel.jpg
 
tinker%20toys.jpg


and to the logical extreme:

tinkertoycomputer_1.jpg

This brilliant Tinkertoy digital computer was built by a team of students at MIT in the 1980s. It's a marvel of mechanical design that apparently plays a "mean game of tic-tac-toe." The idea was born in 1975, when two Sophomores worked on a class project to build something digital from Tinkertoys. It took another few years before they collaborated over the phone to design a working machine for the Mid-America Science Museum:

"A Tinkertoy framework called the read head clicks and clacks its way down the front of the monolith At some point the clicking mysteriously stops; a "core piece" within the framework spins and then with a satisfying "'kathunk' indirectly kicks an 'output duck,' a bird-shaped construction. The output duck swings down from its perch so that its beak points at a number- which identifies the computer's next move in a game of tic-tac-toe."
http://www.retrothing.com/2006/12/the_tinkertoy_c.html
 
Gonna have to be legos. I feel like they are just inherently better. Unless you like the aesthetic of the logs or something.
 
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