Modern Tube computing

From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Wed Jan 21 15:10:15 2004

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:58:54AM -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Hey Dwight.
>
> That's been done (sort of). It's called Dr. Nim :) They come up on eBay
> periodically.

I know... I just won one. :-)

-ethan

-- 
Ethan Dicks, A-130-S      Current South Pole Weather at 21-Jan-2004 21:00 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400       Temp -16.3 F (-26.9 C)    Windchill    -45.9 F (-43.3 C)
APO AP 96598          Wind  10.1 kts Grid 035   Barometer   685 mb (10436. ft)
Ethan.Dicks_at_amanda.spole.gov     http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html
Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 15:10:15 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:36:47 BST