Book Review: How to Build a Working Digital Computer

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tue Mar 2 16:03:46 1999

Max Eskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Doug wrote:

> I have seen books make similar claims, and it was a play of words each
> time. What tools do you need to process these paperclips? Is a blast
> furnace mentioned somewhere? Seriously, I would like to hear more about it
> (could you post the table of contents, maybe?).

The problem with this book (if it's the one I saw several years ago) is that
the computer doesn't interpret instructions. You have to do that yourself.
The book is very interesting, though, and the computer is pretty realistic.
With some extra logic I think it could be made into a full computer.

BTW, this is a topic I'm pretty interested in. :)

-- Derek
Received on Tue Mar 02 1999 - 16:03:46 GMT