Modern Tube computing

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed Jan 21 11:09:12 2004

>From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd_at_rddavis.org>
>
>Quothe John Lawson, from writings of Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:55:27PM -0500:
>> And no one has had the utter madness to suggest a replica of the Mark I
>> or II relay machine..... or the SSEC.... or any of the Bell System relay
>> computers....
>
>Relays don't normally glow, alas, but they do make nice sounds.
>
>My preference is for a digital computer using water instead of
>electricity, but no one's mentioned one of those yet.
>
Hi
 Actually I've given quite a bit a thought about
making a computer that uses marbles instead of electricity
or water. You'd put a bucket of marbles at the top and
turn the crank. Gravity would bring the mrbles to the bottom
where one could scoop them up and recycle.
Dwight
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