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Pulley Logic Gates (2014) [video]
- gene-h 8y agoOf course this technology is old, the Aprahulians used similiar techniques to build quite large digital computers around 850 CE[0].* Of course on problem with such pulley logic is the difficulty of building signal amplifiers. Without signal amplification one must pull the inputs quite hard such that all tension is provided to all stages. The Aprahulians were believed to use elephants for this task. [0]http://robert.surton.net/cs271/apraphulian.pdf http://robert.surton.net/cs271/apraphulian.pdf *it is important that readers take careful note of when this article was published
- amitprayal 8y agoCalling in your bluff, no such people "Aprahulians"
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- thatcherc 8y agoDoes the article say when it was published? If I had to guess I would say around late March or early April :)
- bouvin 8y agoSeeing the headline, I thought of the same article, which I enjoyed greatly when it was originally published. Good fun.
- dang 8y agoDiscussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824588.
- ianbertolacci 8y agoBut can you play Doom on it?
- pavel_lishin 8y agoYes, but the framerate is horrendous.