Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/25/25 2:01 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:47:27 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

    Really NOT hard to make fluidic/hydraulic logic gates. Simple
    valve/cylinders. AND/OR/NOR/XOR ...
    even memory.

 https://mymakerblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/fluidic-logic-and-3d-
printing/

   Good stuff ... but it is, what would you call it ... 'active',
   'class-a', fluidic logic. Seems to require a constant flow thru
   the specially-designed chamber. For a full CPU we'd be talking
   a huge amount of water flow.
   Mechanical valves/pistons ... not much 'flow', but you DO have
   to add more straight-up mechanical components which will
   eventually fail.

You can also go analog similar to a BJT.

   That 'Phillips' machine seems to have been 'analog'. Still
   not sure why it wasn't made electric instead.