20 Jan
2004
20 Jan
'04
7:51 p.m.
At 20:12 20/01/2004 -0500, R. D. Davis wrote:
My preference is for a digital computer using water
instead of
electricity, but no one's mentioned one of those yet.
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.