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  Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
 
(...) Yes. I've been pondering this for a while. I had thought of using "long pins with friction" pressed into 1x10 technic beam. It gives you 9 holes. You'd have 8 bits plus parity (I doubt I'd use parity though) (...) Yes. Mark had proposed this (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
 
(...) Why not go the 'bit stream' route instead? Forget about bytes. Make a Turing machine operating on an 'endless' stream of bits. No adders, subtractors etc, just a state machine. Might be a bit difficult to program though... -- Anders Isaksson, (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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