9 May
2020
9 May
'20
8:41 a.m.
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I am pretty sure that was in one of Martin Gardner's columns
(Mathematical Games) in Scientific American, and is reprinted in one
of his books. Of course he might have got it from your teacher rather
than vice versa.
I am sure I have the appropriate book on my shelves, I can try to find
the reference if you want it.
-tony
From: Dwight Kelvey
There was a fellow that made a relay logic that
could play tic tac toe
What's with these new-fangled devices using _electricity_ anyway? :-)
In high school, my math teacher (I think it was) used a couple of matchboxes
and some beads to create a TTT device; he 'programmed' it by playing against
it, and when the device lost a game, he pulled out the bead that indicated
the device's previous move, so it could never make that losing move again.
Pretty impressive, I thought...