I’m going to have trouble formulating this question, which is why I’m having no luck with the search engines.
A while back I saw some Discovery Channel type show about a group that had put together a computer with tonnes of old (majority inoperable) circuits and chips. Many alternate pathways existed to maneuvre around dead circuits. Basicly, I guess, the OS set up the computer by finding working pathways.
The boast at the end was that if we made a gel filled with mini-circuits and mini-chips we could put computers anywhere. We’d rely on the software to make it a working computer once the gel dried.
So I guess my actual question is simple: Anyone else ever hear of this? Is it old news?