14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
9:45 p.m.
On Thursday 14 February 2008 10:01, dwight elvey wrote:
I used to have something of the sort, when I was a kid...
This thing had a couple or three different places in the top that you could
drop the marbles into, and various "bits" inside that would toggle,
depending on something or other. I never did figure out the logic of it (and
the bit of literature that came with it did indeed use the term "logic" in
there). Plus it was one of the things I never did get around to taking
apart, back when. :-)
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
Date: Thu, 14
Feb 2008 08:02:32 -0600
From: jules.richardson99 at gmail.com
---snip---
No idea why, but whenever I come across a system,
I end up asking myself
"how could this have been done* without electronics?" - I find mechanical
analogues of electronic/electrical systems fascinating...
* Not cheaper, faster, to the same scale etc. obviously - just whether it
could be done at all.
Hi
A few years back I gave a lot of thought to a computer that used
marbles for bits. It was mainly intended as a visual computer.
Dwight