Spaghetti Sorting is just one of the Analog Gadgets called out in Dewdney's "The Armchair Universe" (originally in his Computer Recreations column in "Scientifi

Spaghetti Sorting is just one of the Analog Gadgets called out in Dewdney's "The Armchair Universe" (originally in his Computer Recreations column in "Scientific American"). There are many other cool ones (beginning on page 28): https://archive.org/details/armchairuniverse0000dewd_x2e7/ https://archive.org/details/armchairuniverse0000dewd_x2e7/