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Re: The latest rage in pneumatic computing
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Date: 
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:

The big remaining issue is storage - both RAM and ROM.

Yeah, I thought so too.

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...

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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)

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