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Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
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lugnet.robotics
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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).
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| 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 (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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