10 Mar
1998
10 Mar
'98
11:30 a.m.
<been looking for. Didn't Danny Hillis make a
computer from TinkerToys
<(TM) as part of his PhD thesis or something? I've been looking for the
<schematics....
Check out "The Tinkertoy Computer" by A.K. Dewdney, it details this
machine and has several other interesting chapters, including one on
a digital computer built entirely out of ropes, pulleys, and springs.
This last item may in fact be in Dewdney's other book, "The Magic
Machine".
Kevin
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