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Re: Building a computer from Lego's
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Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:37:16 GMT
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Harley Myler <h.myler@myler.org> wrote:
Browse http://www.rustrans.co.uk/rope.html for a description of a "rope
and pulley" computer, it might give some insight into building one with
Lego.

Hrm.  Apraphulians sounds a lot like April-Fool-ians....

Are you sure this is real?

Ah-ha.  See: http://www.cciw.com/content/april_fools.html

Interesting idea though.

-Kekoa



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I took a look at the Dewdney article, and I agree, it is a quasi-digital device, but not a general-purpose computer at all. I have been working on a "universal Turing machine" made from Lego technics parts, but I am cheating and using an RCX for the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Browse (URL) for a description of a "rope and pulley" computer, it might give some insight into building one with Lego. Harley Myler (URL) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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