Hey! I though about this for a grad project in
History - build a computer
using Roman technology (metallurgy, etc., since the Romans didn't have
electricity).
Just what do you want ? The Z1 was _complete_ echanical and
was build by hand on a kitchen table - and used anything
also known from modern computers, including binary floating
point.
While I didn't know about Zuse at the time, I was thinking about Babbage
and the (now disproved) notion that pre-20th-C. technology wasn't up to
the task of building computers, even if they knew how to do it. Not
being a mechanical engineer, my thoughts drifted over to an electronic
computer rather than mechanical.
> What about
creating a Game ?
> Of course all Graphics has to be ASCII :)
Stop, my question was not about greating a game on a PDP.
The intention was to build a computer game where building
a PDP (or something like that) is the goal ... Such a basic
build up an economy game like Civilisation etc. But instead
of geting welthier all the time you have to build up a PDP as
soon as possible
Ah! I misunderstood. That's a cool idea. There is an open source
version of Civilization floating around. Perhaps that could be
adapted, not that we couldn't steal a start from somewhere else...
My Lord Hammurabi, I beg to report to you that this year we
have produced 1,000 transistors and 400 rallods of copper
wire.
How much copper do you want smelt this year?
-ethan