13 Jan
1999
13 Jan
'99
6:33 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, cswiger wrote:
That would also be about the time that they exhibited their robot man.
Gawd, I wish I could think of 'his' name. Pretty limited abilities, but
could move and do some rather simple things.
- don
Hey, Chuck. Do
you happen to remember approximately when that Shannon
article appeared? Berkeley had many logic toys and robots, including a
Ok - don't have the Scientific Earthling article that a similar
project appeared in, but found in an IEEE book "C.E. Shannon:
Collected Papers" one called "Presentation of a Maze-Solving
Machine" - from "Transactions 8th Cybernetics Conference,
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, 1952".
Is a thick and chewy book. Also, get this - in the paper on
"Programming a computer for Playing Chess" (National IRE
Conference, March 9, 1949), he referances the game of Nim,
and that a machine able to play a perfect game has been
constructed - Condon, Tawney and Derr, U.S. Patent 2,215,544.
The "Nimotron" based on this patent was built and exhibited
by Westinghouse at the 1938 New York World's Fair.
Chuck
cswiger(a)widomaker.com
donm(a)cts.com
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) Z-Node 9 - 619-454-8412
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
see old system support at http://www.psyber.com/~tcj
visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Web site at http://devili.iki.fi/cpm
with Mirror at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm