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From: dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Tinkertoy and Mechanical Computers
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.101041.11537@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 12 Jan 91 10:10:41 GMT
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lpress@venera.isi.edu (Laurence I. Press) writes:
>I have seen mention of a tic-tac-toe machine built of Tinkertoys.
>Can someone give me a pointer to an article on this and any other
>machines using unusual components for logic and/or memory?

Scientific American's computer columnsit, A.K. Dewdney, did a column 
about this last spring (?).  Full description and a marvelously
detailed illustration showing exactly how it works!

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