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
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