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When I was a kid, my local kids' museum (Mid-America Museum in Hot Springs Arkansas) had a giant mechanical Lego computer that could play Tic Tac Toe. Unfortun
by johnhattan 11y ago
When I was a kid, my local kids' museum (Mid-America Museum in Hot Springs Arkansas) had a giant mechanical Lego computer that could play Tic Tac Toe.
Unfortunately, the thing had so many moving parts and was so unruly that I never got to see it actually working. It was almost always out of order and eventually was retired.
- EvanAnderson 11y agoI remember hearing about Danny Hillis (who went on to co-found Thinking Machines, who produced the massively parallel Connection Machine computers) building a tinkertoy computer. A little bit of digging turned up this book w/ some a chapter that includes, I believe, the computer you're talking about: https://archive.org/stream/tinkertoycomputer00dewd https://archive.org/stream/tinkertoycomputer00dewd
- johnhattan 11y agoYes, you are correct. Got my toys mixed up :)