On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2004, R. D. Davis wrote:
>
> > Quothe Rob O'Donnell, from writings of Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:51:45AM +0000:
> > > >My preference is for a digital computer using water instead of
> > > >electricity, but no one's mentioned one of those yet.
> > >
> > > Even sillier...
> >
> > That was not a "silly" idea; it was a serious idea, and I don't see why
> > it isn't possible. It could have some very practical applications.
>
> It's been done before. An example (THE example?) sits in the main science
> museum in England (I forgot what it's called).
BTW, it was a computer that modeled a nation's economy using water as the
analog for money. VERY cool.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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