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Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
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Date: 
Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:58:15 GMT
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Andy Gombos wrote:
Using the paper tape idea - the input consists of a row of holes and spaces.
The spaces are large enough for a piston end to get through, and change some
part of the meachine on the other side (to store state).

Output could be a piston with a sharp object, that simply punches a hole in
the paper.  Unless you had a very big punch, output could not be easily fed
back into the input.

Yeah, but that would be the whole idea.  Otherwise it would be easy..
just knock out axles where you want a 1 and leave 'em in where you want
a zero and let a human being read it.  But I was thinking of a situation
where the output could be fed back into it as input data for a future
computation.

>> Mark



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  Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
 
(...) Oh... When you mentioned axles and holes I instantly flashed on the axles *always* being in the holes, just pressed to one side of the brick or the other. That way you don't have to make a machine that can insert axles in holes. By pressing (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
 
Using the paper tape idea - the input consists of a row of holes and spaces. The spaces are large enough for a piston end to get through, and change some part of the meachine on the other side (to store state). Output could be a piston with a sharp (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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