The Martin Gardner column about teaching matchboxes to play tic-tac-toe
was March 1962 Scientific American, "Mathematical Games: How to build a
game-learning machine and then teach it to play and to win"
In the novel "The Adolescence of P-1", by Thomas Joseph Ryan (1977), a
college kid, fasci
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM Brian L. Stuart wrote:
> If it's the one I'm thinking of, the game is called hexapawn,
> though it's played on a 3x3 grid, like TTT. I've always
> had a fond spot for that article. It was one of my inspirations
> back when I did a lot of AI.
I remember Martin Gardn
On 2020-May-09, at 9:32 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
> I have recently been trying to improve the ripple on the output of my
> MicroVAX 3100 Model 95 PSU because occasionally it would fry a memory
> module. I replaced a bunch of capacitors, some of which had started to leak.
> However, the rip
The spikes are 400mV. The probes are set to x10 and the scope is set for
them to be x10.
Regards
Rob
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: 09 May 2020 17:45
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If I said 'EPT' anywhere I apologize; I'm talking about PPT (Punched Paper
Tape) and EPCs (Edge Punched Cards).
Here's a description of a series 'L' system, the successor to the 'E' series,
containing
"The reader could be used for loading programs faster. It could also be used
for accessing
On Saturday, May 9, 2020, 11:42:11 AM EDT, Tony Duell via cctalk
wrote:
>On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
>wrote:
>>
>> > From: Dwight Kelvey
>>
>> > There was a fellow that made a relay logic that could play tic tac toe
There's a guy who brings the stepper/relay TTT mac
On 05/09/2020 11:32 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
Hello,
I have recently been trying to improve the ripple on the output of my
MicroVAX 3100 Model 95 PSU because occasionally it would fry a memory
module. I replaced a bunch of capacitors, some of which had started to leak.
However, the
Hello,
I have recently been trying to improve the ripple on the output of my
MicroVAX 3100 Model 95 PSU because occasionally it would fry a memory
module. I replaced a bunch of capacitors, some of which had started to leak.
However, the ripple does not seem much better. There is a scope trace h
> On May 9, 2020 at 10:41 AM Tony Duell via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:>> > From: Dwight Kelvey> > There was a fellow that made a relay logic
> that could play tic tac toe> What's with these new-fangled devices using
> _electricity_ anyw
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> > From: Dwight Kelvey
>
> > There was a fellow that made a relay logic that could play tic tac toe
>
> What's with these new-fangled devices using _electricity_ anyway? :-)
>
> In high school, my math teacher (I think it was
> From: Dwight Kelvey
> There was a fellow that made a relay logic that could play tic tac toe
What's with these new-fangled devices using _electricity_ anyway? :-)
In high school, my math teacher (I think it was) used a couple of matchboxes
and some beads to create a TTT device; he 'pro
Love it!
https://Museum.syssrc.com/tour
Bob Roswell
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: DIGI-COMP 1 enhanced
> On May 8, 2020, at 10:
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 1:07 PM Stefan Skoglund wrote:
>
> tor 2020-04-30 klockan 13:49 +0100 skrev Tony Duell via cctalk:
> > From time to time there are posts here about the Facit N4000 paper
> > tape punch/reader unit. The one that looks like a Facit 4070 with a
> > tape reader on the front (in
tor 2020-04-30 klockan 13:49 +0100 skrev Tony Duell via cctalk:
> From time to time there are posts here about the Facit N4000 paper
> tape punch/reader unit. The one that looks like a Facit 4070 with a
> tape reader on the front (in fact the punch mechanism is much the
> same
> as that in the 4070
tor 2020-04-30 klockan 13:49 +0100 skrev Tony Duell via cctalk:
> From time to time there are posts here about the Facit N4000 paper
> tape punch/reader unit. The one that looks like a Facit 4070 with a
> tape reader on the front (in fact the punch mechanism is much the
> same
> as that in the 4070
> On May 8, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Jörg Hoppe via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> [EXTERNAL EMAIL]
>
> Guys,
>
> I added a motor drive to my DIGI-COMP I, and wrote 4 web pages about that
> device.
>
> See http://www.retrocmp.com/articles/digi-comp-1/
>
> or just the video https://youtu.be/D6GgxXRJXnw
>
>
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