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I felt the same. It never even occurred to me that you could you use a physical compression wave in a fluid as memory in a real computer. Here's a delightful s
by Y_Y 2y ago
I felt the same. It never even occurred to me that you could you use a physical compression wave in a fluid as memory in a real computer.
Here's a delightful snippet from that article btw:
> Alan Turing proposed the use of gin as an ultrasonic delay medium, claiming that it had the necessary acoustic properties.
- rbanffy 2y agoWe should build a computer that uses lasers and the Apollo retro-reflectors as delay-line memory. It’ll be the largest computer in the solar system. Who’s in?