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From: altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg)
Subject: Re: Grey Walter's Tortoise
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Simon Nugent (Simon@helpdsys.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I know this is a milion miles away from discussions of the relative merits of
: DANTE II (gulp), but can anybody point me to where I can find info on
: Grey Walter's Tortoise (preferably including full circuit diagrams).

Two papers that you can try are:

An Imitation of Life, W. Grey Walter, Scientific American, May 1950, pp 42-45.

A Machine That Learns, W. Grey Walter, Scientific American, August 1951,
	pp 60-63.

Although they don't contain the full circuit diagrams, they do describe 
the robots in good detail.  I have a copy of the circuit diagrams from 
The Living Brain for Machina Speculatrix, however they aren't very 
useful to me because they are based on 45 year old tube technology.

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Karl R Altenburg				altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND  58105

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.  SIR THOMAS BROWNE
