Alt-BEAM Archive

Message #04178



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "George Rix" rix.g@bmts.com
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 19:47:35 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Transistor MicroCore


He may be referring to the transistor elements inside the chip, or it may be
that he made it out of alot of transistor inverters. You can find the
circuits inside a bunch of Forrest M. Mimms' books. I was thinking of doing
this, but I realized that I'm just too lazy =)
Signing off,
Rob Rix

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>From: James Taylor
>To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
>Subject: Transistor MicroCore
>Date: Wed, Jun 2, 1999, 5:51 PM
>

> Hello
> Finished going over Tilden's living machine paper
> for about the 5th time. Still haven't discovered the
> secrets to his Spider. Anyway, he mentions nuerons
> made of transistors. Is that a primitive Microcore?
> When I say primitive I mean, did he switch over to the
> 74XX14 IC later? Would like to see a schematic for a
> transistor Nu, if anyone has one. Thanks

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