[Coco] Tandy Color Computer 3 RND Function

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Fri Mar 27 10:46:31 EDT 2020


On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 09:34:31PM -0500, Allen Huffman wrote:
> Or, use lava lamps:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
> 
> I love the idea of making a computer randomly select colored marbles and come up with the stats based on what happened, rather than calculating it.
> 
> I do wonder how accurate the calculated probability would be compared to letting a true random generator (like lavarand, etc.) just do it a million times.
> 
> 		— A

This would be a great project to re-create the next time there is a CoCoFEST! Challenge... :-)

Bonus points for using a DS-69 to digitize the photos!

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