8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
3:47 a.m.
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 11:40 am, James Fogg wrote:
I'm waiting for someone to invent a display that can be used in direct
sunlight, so I don't have to work in what is affectionately called the
'coffin' aka 'caravan by the sea with windows blacked out'.
When will that be...?
Talk to me goose.
Mark.
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Mark Wickens
Rhodium Consulting Ltd
You've got
gravity. Dry sand flows pretty well. Bamboo is
hollow and so can be used to channel dry sand around.
Different lengths of bamboo could be used to introduce
delays. Doubtless you could make basic logic gates.
Some sort of mechanical effort would be needed to lift sand
again in order to combat gravity pulling sand downward.
Not much different from a relay computer really, I suppose.
Just slower.
And more sandy.
And relay computers don't like salt water, but administrators might.
Hmmm, seaside computing. I think we hit on something.