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A project log for The Turing Computer plays Busy Beaver III

Now we are pushing the boundaries of computing down. Busy Beaver? Refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver

agpcooperagp.cooper 10/10/2017 at 04:410 Comments

Shift Registers

I have been looking at relay shift registers (yes a relay version of the Turing), and Mike Szczys was interested in Modulo 60 counters. Neat, a relay clock perhaps. Anyway here is a Modulo 60 design using D-type flip flops:

The start up is not perfect but pretty good.

Next how to decode? Easy, Q and ~Q of each stage can be used to decode "0", "1" etc:

AlanX

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