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According to this article on c|net:
Two … users have now revealed functioning hard drives built inside Minecraft that can read and write data. The first, created by Reddit and Imgur user smellystring can store 1KB [sic] of data, while a second, larger unit created by The0JJ can store 4KB [sic] of data.
"One day we will build a full computer in Minecraft, then play Minecraft on it. then the universe will crash," writes Imgur user mkat10z. Turns out, someone has already done that, creating a 2D platformer version of Minecraft that you play within Minecraft on a redstone computer.
UPDATE: It appears the referenced article was in error; the actual capacities should be in kilobits.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Friday August 22 2014, @01:33PM
I lurk at ORE Open Redstone Engineers
http://openredstone.org/ [openredstone.org]
This drive is their kind of thing although I don't lurk enough to know if the drive maker is in ORE. He probably should be. Or if not he almost certainly knows of / lurks ORE.
ORE has a nice youtube channel at
https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenRedstone/ [youtube.com]
Personally I think computers in minecraft is "old" the only new thing is the news coverage. Now the 3-d printer in minecraft is new-er and more interesting.
Something I don't like about the ORE guys is they're using 50s era comp sci. I have the knowledge but not the patience to make a modern multiplication algo multiplier, like the ones in a pentium etc. Or implement floating point. Minecraft guys tend to implement brute force like you'd see in 1950s-1960s era retrocomputing.
Implement a Wallace or Dadda multiplier, or even just a look ahead carry unit adder, then I'll be impressed. Then again brute force is easier to debug.
As discussed on HN a couple days back, if someone wrote a Verilog/VHDL to minecraft compiler, that would be fairly insane.
ORE is hardly the only font of minecraft engineering knowledge nor should it be. It would be interesting to hear of any other communities.
Its been a long time and a lot of tech since the first time I was utterly amazed at a mere automated chicken factory.
Personally my engineering tends more themodynamic and I make vast steam power plants with turbines and boilers and multifarms to make wood to power the boilers, all as automated as possible. Then I inevitably have no idea what to do with all that energy. To each their own. I donno of any thermodynamic engineer groups analogous to ORE. That would be interesting to know about. I know there's lots of lone wolfs doing weird atomic reactor stuff but I find the woodlot and creosote plants more aesthetically appealing.