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From: rod@venera.isi.edu (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: LEGOs -- computationally complete?
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Date: 3 Oct 89 16:48:18 GMT
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Reply-To: rod@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III)
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I vaguely recall an article (Scientific American, perhaps?) from a few
years ago that talked about mechanical computers, specifically some
simple state machine. It was in the guise of some ruins found on a
South Pacific island, I think, with ropes and logs changing and
representing the state of the machine. I no longer even recall whether
it was real or some fiction created for the purposes of the article. A
quick scan of Dewdney's columns over the last three years might
provide a clue.

	--Rod