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> Organization: Visix Software, Arlington, Virginia Lines: 27 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 /\ Jeff Barr \ / Visix Software, Inc. /\ 800-832-8668 \ / / \ uunet!visix!jeff \ / 1525 Wilson Blvd. / \ 703-841-5858 \ / / visix!jeff@uunet.uu.net\/ Arlington, VA 22209 / \ \/