13 Feb
2008
13 Feb
'08
9:08 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Gavin Melville wrote:
Not completely on topic, but my boss wishes to build a
computer using
modern knowledge, but only materials, IO etc that existed as at 1st Jan
1900. The basic premise is that had a need existed, and they knew how
to make one, could have it been done.
That initially seemed hard, and certainly isn't easy, in that I'm the
one doing the "building" :-) however we have fairly quickly identified
that magnetic logic is the only likely candidate.
I'd be thinking fluidic logic, but I'm strange.
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roger ivie
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