9 Mar
2005
9 Mar
'05
2:36 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:14:28 +0000 (GMT)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
Hmm sand and bamboo how would you do that ?...
Well, my first thought is that sand is SiO_2, so you could try to
reduce it to silicon and make transistors.
We'd not be able to make transistors with just sand. There are
essential doping agents. I'm not sure arsenic can be easily extracted
cheerfully
build their own computer out of sand and bamboo on a
desert >island given a
proper vacation, or who've memorized the
arcana of all >mechanical and electrical technology in the last 100
years, or whom>
from bamboo...