Starting from Scratch (was Re: OT: Modern college educations)

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
Date: Thu Oct 22 18:39:10 1998

At 11:44 PM 10/22/98 +0100, Tony wrote:
>I would forget silicon. There's no way you're going to be able to make
>ICs from scratch (with no tools at all...).

You guys don't get it. :-)

You play the game like this:
        1) Scout for a surface deposit of Coal and start mining coal.
        2) Scout for (surface) deposit of iron ore and start mining ore.
        3) Using Coal + Ore build Pig Iron
        4) Using Pig Iron build picks and shovels to increase your
           mining efficiency.
        5) Build Smelter/Foundry
        6) Locate lime and concrete develop cement.
        7) Collect Sand and use with cement to build an iron casting apparatus
        8) Using the sand casting build a steam boiler and steam engine
        9) Using the steam engine and iron casting build metal stamping
        10) Using Steam engine and metal stamping build rail road.
        11) Start mining below ground and locate Copper.
        12) Build a copper foundry.
        13) Using metal stamping build wire puller (makes wire)
        14) Using iron, and wire build generator.
        15) Using generator create electricity.
        18) Mine tungsten and build lightbulb.
        ...
First one to a PDP-8 wins :-)
Received on Thu Oct 22 1998 - 18:39:10 BST