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  New WebBrick 1.5
 
I have improved WebBrick's error checking. Some people have complained that it crashes sometimes, and hopefully the new error checking will find any problems. WebBrick is a simple tool for connecting your RCX to the web. You don't need to do any (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Building a computer from Lego's
 
(...) Nonsense. I quote: "No general-purpose computer is complete without a memory. The memory of the Apraphulian computer consisted of hundreds of special storage elements we would call flip-flops. Here again the remarkable simplicity of the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Building a computer from Lego's
 
(...) Now you've gone and ruined it...<sigh>....I guess there has to be one in every class; but for the rest of you, please suspend disbelief and know that the machine described is still a very, very valid description of a digital computer, albeit (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Building a computer from Lego's
 
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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Fw: Saw RCX brick at Goodwill
 
(...) Hi chrisb, I would recommend Dave Baums NQC (Not Quite C) for you as a rookie ;-) You can find it here : (URL) if you're living in a windows world you can use the RCXCC (RXC Command Center ; don't know who's responsible for this :( ) located (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)


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