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Inspired by the recent pneumatic computing thread I have created some LEGO mechanical memory. It is an adaptation of a possible design for molecular level RAM. The folder is at (URL) with details below. In this overall view of it (URL) the sliding (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc)
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Brilliant! Positively brilliant! >> Mark (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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(...) I concur. It's only a matter of time now before someone figures out how to build Babbage's Difference Engine from Lego. Becky (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) Do you happen to have any links to the molecular RAM design you are referencing? It would be very cool to compare and contrast your excellent model with the "real world" counterpart. Jona (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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(...) About half-way down this page (URL) is a diagram and short discussion of a possible design for molecular level RAM. The diagram shows 2 memory cells of 2 bits each and the mechanism to select which memory cell is being read/written. In my LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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Very cool design. (...) Question: Why are you calling 4 bits a byte? 4 bits is a nibble, while 8 bits would be a byte. Obviously the design can be extended to 8 bits like you mentioned. They you would have your byte. Michael (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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(...) Actually a byte is whatever you define it to be - a nibble is generally half a byte, and a word is generally 2 bytes. I haven't seen a machine using 4 bit bytes, but I've seen 8, 16, 32 and 64. And I'm sure there are other weird ones floating (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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