October 14, 2011
How would you build a computer from absolutely nothing?
Posted by: kk : Category: Computer Question Answers
Question by Ash: How would you build a computer from absolutely nothing?
I don’t mean using parts bought from a shop or anything, I mean how could you build a computer using nothing but metal and some tools? Would it be possible to make even a tiny computer with a small amount of memory?
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Answer by Loys
Are u serious?
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October 14th, 2011 at 1:14 am
Not unless you use the loosest form of the word “computer”.
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An abacus can be defined as a computer and I could make an abacus like that.
October 14th, 2011 at 2:13 am
Well, the computer that you would make would be HUGE- think ENIAC. You would also need semiconductors, diodes, etc. It would probably not be worth the effort and take thousands of dollars, if not more.
October 14th, 2011 at 3:07 am
take a bunch of rocks, tie them together
October 14th, 2011 at 4:03 am
Dude I will give you the money to buy one, just don’t try -_-
October 14th, 2011 at 4:29 am
Go to the beach and get some sand. Purify it into silicon (you’ll need a furnace of some kind – I design computers from the basic components [capacitors, resistors, etc.] up, and I don’t even know the processes used), then dope some to be electron donor and some to be electron acceptor. (Are you starting to get the idea? It’s like a cave man making a car from basic materials he could find 50,000 years ago.)
Would it be possible? Probably. Would it cost more than a fleet of airliners? Also probably. Once you’ve built a silicon foundry that can produce memory chips, the difference between 1MB and 64GB is about the same as the difference in ocean level if you dropped 1 drop of water into it. A few billion dollars, and a few billion dollars and 20 cents, are about the same.