21 Jan
2004
21 Jan
'04
2:58 a.m.
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On 20 Jan 2004, R. D. Davis wrote:
BTW, it was a computer that modeled a nation's economy using water as the
analog for money. VERY cool.
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Quothe Rob O'Donnell, from writings of Wed,
Jan 21, 2004 at 01:51:45AM +0000:
That was not a "silly" idea; it was a serious idea, and I don't see why
it isn't possible. It could have some very practical applications.
It's been done before. An example (THE example?) sits in the main science
museum in England (I forgot what it's called). My
preference is for a digital computer using water instead of
electricity, but no one's mentioned one of those yet.
Even sillier...