Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!visix!jeff
From: jeff@visix.UUCP (Jeff Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: LEGOs -- computationally complete?
Summary: Not Arkansas, Boston!
Message-ID: <218@visix.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 89 14:48:56 GMT
References: <3300071@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1801@brazos.Rice.edu>
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In article <1801@brazos.Rice.edu>, preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
> In article <3300071@m.cs.uiuc.edu> nelson@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> >We are interested in building something (possibly a Turing Machine) out of
> >  LEGO blocks.  Various ideas have been popped around, but there seem to be
> 
> I don't know of any helpful articles, but it reminds
> me that Danny Hillis (as in Connection Machine) once
> mentioned building a tinker-toy machine that played
> tic-tac-toe.  I believe it lives in a museum in Arkansas.
> How's that for urban rumor-mongering?
> 

Unless there is more than one, I saw the Tinker-Toy (tm ?) tic-tac-toe
machine in the Computer Museum in Boston, MA earlier this year.  Its
a cube about 1m on a side, filled with Tinker-Toys and string.

Do you suppose they needed a log-ic analyzer to debug it (:-)?

> Keep us posted on the Lego design.
> 
> Preston Briggs

							Jeff

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