I remember hearing about Danny Hillis (who went on to co-found Thinking Machines, who produced the massively parallel Connection Machine computers) building a t

I 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