Registone Mechanism

The Registone Mechinism is an ancient difference engine created by the Regipastries in the early 1880s. It sits in the sacred Shrine of the Waffle, which was later used to store an ingrediant of the Golden Waffle, in the Dorkugese Jungle. It is made of nothing but rocks throughout, the only non-mineral item being its output device/printer. Even the ink itself is made from rocks, that is, charcoal.

Description
The Regipastries were an ancient sect of nerds obbsessed with machinary. They were at least sixty years ahead of their time in their vision that machinary would one day be able to do math and help people. Yet, they didn't fully understand what a computer could do.

The Regipastries devised the Registone Mechanism to calculate sets of ten, a number they wanted to carry automatically because they bought and bartered waffles (and their ingrediants) as their only source of food and currency, in units of ten.

They used what they had. The console is nothing but rocks, in a cave of rocks. Rock gears, rock cogs, a rock crank, carved rocks for numbers, rock spools to hold the paper (not rock), rock workings, ink from charcoal (also a rock), and it was set on a rectangular slab of rock as well. Due to the easy breakability of rocks, the Registock Mechanism epically failed when it came to reliability. One hundred Regipastries carved deeper into the cave to permanetly bunk with their precious machine, to maintain and operate the machine. Over the decades, they began to die off, and, in 2010, there were only seven left at the Shrine.

Meanwhile, other members of the tribe built two other difference engines, the Regifrozitron and the Regiron Console, and the tribe continued to print numbers and eat waffles undisturbed, for many years after.

After the advent of the telegraph, Regipastry priests could venture out of their villages and make contact in populated areas to other members of the tribe, using a special phoneline dedicated to them. There are seven of these hotlines in existance. Their existance is classified from the Governance and is wiretapped and maintained by a secret group of EPF elites. In the past forty years, the hotline has been used eleven times. Regipastry members use more modern technology; the hotlien is exclusively for utmost business.

Gigaregibot
In 1971, the now-dying tribe of Regipastries, having long succeeded in their past three endeavors, decided to pool their power one last time and build the ultimate security console, in conjunction with the kings and queens of Olde Antarctica, in case they or the government ever needed an above-maximum security vault of the highest priority.

Like the other two consoles, the Gigaregibot requires a printed sheet from each engine in order to open. From the Registone, one must divide ten by ten with the console, and print the results.

Golden Waffle
In exchange for advice on how to carve rocks more efficiently and allow for less wear and tear, Leonardo de Waffli was permitted to store an ingrediant to the Golden Waffle in the shrine, behind the Registone Mechanism.

Trivia

 * This is a parody of the Pokemon, Regirock, a creature made of nothing but rock (hence then name) and one of three protectors of Regigigas.


 * The console was never seen by non-Regipastry eyes until IBM, Explorer, and Fred discovered it.

Internal Links

 * Regipastries
 * Regifrozatron
 * Regiron Console
 * Gigaregibot

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