[HN Gopher] A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
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       A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
        
       Author : anschwa
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2024-01-29 14:36 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | In the tradition of 1961's MENACE?
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
        
         | _a_a_a_ wrote:
         | I don't think so, MENACE actually learned to play, this appears
         | to be just a look up table for precomputed positions. Still
         | impressive.
        
       | jcmeyrignac wrote:
       | In France in 1982, the magazine Science & Vie published a
       | cardboard computer simulator, named "Ordinapoche". It was
       | designed by Joel de Rosnay. Here is a cached copy in french:
       | https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%...
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       | It helped me understand computers!
        
         | ustad wrote:
         | Do you have another link? my mobile safari gots into infinite
         | redirects.
        
           | speps wrote:
           | The page contents: https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.p
           | hp?inframe=1&url=h...
           | 
           | Had to disable JS to get the frame URL and load that instead.
        
         | jhbadger wrote:
         | This in is a tradition of earlier simulated ("cardboard")
         | computers such as the 1965 "Little Man Computer" or the 1968
         | CARDIAC. Like Ordinapoche, they were basically aids to help a
         | person step through a machine language program, with the person
         | performing the low-level actions themselves.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_man_computer
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...
        
           | askiiart wrote:
           | "What do you call it when you're prosecuted for illegally
           | importing cardboard computers?"
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           | "CARDIAC arrest (ba-dum tsss)"
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | The _Computer Recreations_ column by A.K. Dewdney was fascinating
       | to me when I was just getting into programming. (And of course it
       | followed the more famous _Mathematical Recreations_ column of
       | Martin Gardner before him.)
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       | Dewdney collected his columns into a few books over the years.
       | The Tinker Toy computer is featured in this one:
       | https://archive.org/details/tinkertoycomputer00dewd
        
       | imglorp wrote:
       | The original:
       | https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81
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       | 10,000 parts. "The gates are all TTL (Tinker Toy Logic)" :-)
        
         | schubart wrote:
         | "It could have been built by any six-year old with 500 boxes of
         | tinker toys and a PDP-10."
        
           | theolivenbaum wrote:
           | Or many years after with some custom cut acrylic pieces:
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7wp70Xyxxw
        
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