Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03797
To: beam@corp.sgi.com beam@corp.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com JVernonM@aol.com
Date: May 27, 1999 2:31 PM
Subject: PBS special- Poppers
>I sent this message last night (this morning?) but like a couple others it
>didn't go through. I'm sending it again, so I apologize if anyone gets this
>twice.
>
>
>I do have a couple of positive comments about the PBS special (NO, NO :)).
>Two things that really caught my eye were a little popper looking bot that
>twitched VERY rapidly and bug like. It must have had a very small cap. It's
>movement was very interesting to watch. Also, and what really got my mojo
>going, was a little BEAMANT 6 (I guess) that was made of two hextiles
stacked
>on top of each other like a CPU bot. It's movement was truly amazing from
my
>experience with these critters! I mean it moved constantly with a very
fluid
>motion. I gotta know what's under the hood there. Is it a Bicore jobbie
with
>a PM1 circuit to get that rapid, constant movement? Does it therefore have
a
>sleep phase? If anybody has any straight poop on this thing I'd love to
hear
>it. I ran the tape over and over on that little bug, and was amazed at it's
>activity. Dave, how's that for a kit? What would that be 3 or 4 stacked in
a
>row for R&D :)? I'll wait (I want one).
>Jim
>
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