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Old 02-03-2019, 12:22 AM  
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Wow those are pretty cool... ! I would like to buy one but I have to admit that I probably would not have the patience to learn how to program one. Instead I'd hope for a program that just made the lights blink. Or maybe I'd just stick a raspberry pi in the back and right a blinky program in Python or something.

This this out:



If you watch the video, pay attention to the click of the machine. It's a motor with an offset wheel or something, that is the actual "CPU Clock". This may sound stupid but I never really understood the purpose of a CPU Clock until seeing one on a relay based computer before. So cool.
That's pretty cool.

I built and still have a tic tac toe machine that uses relays and stators (the spinning switches inside pinball machines) to compute it's moves. I copied it from a much nicer version that was once at the Museum of Victoria.

This is the original, mines too messy.

https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/399309
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