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Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:35:29 GMT
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Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> > Steve Baker wrote:
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> > > The big remaining issue is storage - both RAM and ROM.
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> > Yeah, I thought so too.
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> 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)
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, Sweden
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| (...) 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)
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