Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!kleonard From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: LEGOs -- computationally complete? Message-ID: <348@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 4 Oct 89 13:18:04 GMT References: <3300071@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <8144@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <9981@venera.isi.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 11 In article <9981@venera.isi.edu> rod@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Rodney Doyle Van Meter III) writes: * * 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 * ... Hey, mon!, Wanna bet it was in the April issue? ------------ regardz, Ken