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Article #2385Re: LEGOs -- computationally complete?
From: Preston Briggs
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1989 02:42
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1989 02:42
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!husc6!rice!titan!preston From: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: LEGOs -- computationally complete? Message-ID: <1801@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 02:42:23 GMT References: <3300071@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: root@rice.edu Reply-To: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 13