Here's a challenging thought experiment: What is the most modern technology that you could go back in time the farthest and still make? Ex: I think I could go back about 500 years and make: A simple camera. An electric battery. An electric guitar (but not an amp). You?
Yeah, a computer is very difficult, even with transistors there's a mountain of tech. However, when I was a kid I made a tiny crystal radio with a quartz crystal, wire, and a toilet paper roll. I think that was it. Oh a speaker, that'd be hard without magnets.
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The switch/transistor project was actually kind of cool. Don't use Google. Just fool around and try to figure out how you might do it from a few basic physics principles (building an electromagnet was part of it). But maybe I need to get out more.
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So a 1 bit computer? I guess the question then is, how many would you need and how much juice to power them. That's the killer I think. Old transistor computers were massive power hogs.
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