Re: 1958 Crisis in education

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From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:46

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On 21/07/2018 12:42, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:59:23 GMT, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
> <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:32:27 +0100
>> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:36:19 -0000 (UTC)
>>> "Kerr-Mudd,John" <nots...@invalid.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Think small. a heap of nanobots could repair a leak from the
>>>> /inside/.
>>>
>>>       Nanobots is pushing it, but I could imagine something
>>>       specialised
>>> that could get inside half inch pipes to find leaks and fit patches
>>> being quite feasible today - initially plumbers would carry some in
>>> their toolbox for fixing leaks under the slab and similarly
>>> inconvenient places.
>>
>>       Looks like someone else has similar thoughts for something a
>>       little
>> trickier than domestic plumbing.
>>
>> <https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/17/rolls-royce-is-developing-tiny-cockroa
>> ch-robots-to-fix-airplane-engines.html>
>>
>>       The snake robots are an interesting approach.
>>
> Will it be programmed in Parseltongue?
> 
> 

Or on the PDP8, because although lacking many instructions,
it did, at least, have an Adder.

(But only 12 bits, so just a TAD)

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