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From: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
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Subject: Re: LEGOs -- computationally complete?
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Date: 30 Sep 89 02:42:23 GMT
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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?

Keep us posted on the Lego design.

Preston Briggs