19 Feb
2004
19 Feb
'04
7:31 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On 19 Feb 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
When I was a wee lad, I used to go to the Buhl Planetarium in
Pittsburgh. They had a relay based machine that would play Tic-tac-toe,
and either always win, or draw. I dunno how many relays or what
contacts/forms you need to implement it. I did a cursory Google search,
and didn't see anything that looked like schematics for it.
--jc
Polling list wisdom here...
Hmm, any suggestions for anything creative to do with around 450 or so
5V relays? I have a bucket full here (literally).
I can't help thinking I should be able to wire up some sort of
interesting computer-esque demonstration with them! (Something nice and
power-hungry, noisy, and with plenty of obligatory status lights :-)
Build one of these:
http://www.widomaker.com/~cswiger/simon/