20 Jan
2004
20 Jan
'04
9:27 p.m.
Rob O'Donnell wrote:
Even sillier...
I'd like to see someone build a replica of HEX, from the Terry Pratchet
Discworld books - from the descriptions, it's digital computer that
operates via ants running around tubes.. (I guess, get them a fine enough
bore so that the ants couldn't turn around, you could get it to work...)
Rob.
Don't forget the computer built from tinker-toy parts (wooden hubs and dowels) at some
university in, IIRC, the early eighties...