A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
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A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
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Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#2In the tradition of 1961's MENACE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#3In the tradition of 1961's MENACE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
I don't think so, MENACE actually learned to play, this appears to be just a look up table for precomputed positions. Still impressive.
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#4In 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%...
It helped me understand computers!
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#5In 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%... It helped me understand computers!
Do you have another link? my mobile safari gots into infinite redirects.
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#6In 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%... It helped me understand computers!
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_...
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#7The 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.)
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
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#8In 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%... It helped me understand computers!
Do you have another link? my mobile safari gots into infinite redirects.
The page contents: https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?inframe=1&url=h...
Had to disable JS to get the frame URL and load that instead.
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#9The original: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81
10,000 parts. "The gates are all TTL (Tinker Toy Logic)" :-)
Re: A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe (1989)
#10The original: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X39.81 10,000 parts. "The gates are all TTL (Tinker Toy Logic)" :-)
"It could have been built by any six-year old with 500 boxes of tinker toys and a PDP-10."