OT:techology

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:06 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
> >
> > > You've got gravity. Dry sand flows pretty well. Bamboo is hollow and so
> > > can be used to channel dry sand around. Different lengths of bamboo
> > > could be used to introduce delays. Doubtless you could make basic logic
> > > gates.
> >
> > I think you'd have better luck lighting a fire with the bamboo and
> > smelting the sand to make silicon and go straight for IC technology.
>
> Can you make batteries from bamboo though?

Coconuts (I learned that trick from Gilligan's Island).

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