9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
11:56 a.m.
Yes, with valves and pistons you chould be able to build a digital
computer powered by live steam. With a rotory steam powered wheel I
guess you could have a metal tape drive and metal punches for
recording.
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:26:51 -0800 (PST), Dwight K. Elvey
<dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
W5JAI
UltraVan #257
CAL - 27 #221
From:
"David H. Barr" <dhbarr at gmail.com>
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:53:19 -0600, Jim Isbell, W5JAI
<jim.isbell at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
I think he means that the individual logic elements are
steam driven. Not just a mechanical machine connedted
to a steam engine.
Dwight
At that point I began wondeering about a steam
powered computer.
Actualy I guess this laptop is actually a steam powered computer by
that historians definition. BUT..what about a steam powered computer
using steam valves and pistons. That could give you great gain!!!
Wasn't Babbage's original design to be steam powered?
-dhbarr.