[1.12.2] [suggestion] vaccum tube computer
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While I am sure that the devs have seen my ramblings in their discord, I have dicided to make an official suggestion for something they were probably going to add anyway at some point. The vaccum tube computer would allow a much greater amount of automation available to players without changeing much of the existing content in IE and might allow better automation of other mods.
The basics are this, you craft parts of/build a multiblock of a machine that uses vaccum tubes to do complex computational things. The computer acts as a hub for info processing, the more you have in one mainframe, the better computing you can do, (also would take more power). Of course, without instructions, it cant do much. To access the computer, you need a computer terminal connected via a data wire (its like the redstone wire but used by the computer). The terminal is small and can be put in your house/around your base with ease, unlike the actual computer which is large and likely needs its own dedicated room/space.
The monitor (looking like an old CRT monitor, or something from fallout) would be two blocks tall and would takes both power and a data connection, input via the top on 2 diffrent connecters like the transformer. Acessing the terminal would open up a command line like screen (probobly in green, though white works too). This screen would allow you to access the computer and tell it to do things, get information on connected systems, or use other programs. You would be able to connect machines to the computer via a special data connecter onto the machine you want's redstone port. Via the terminal, you could give the computer instructions that it will try to follow. Basically codeing, but much simpler.
The idea for the "codeing" is simple, if/then operation. You can tell it to look for information on the data network, and if that data be there (or not be there), then it will do the following action, whether that be telling a machine to turn on/off, record/send info to other machines/programs, or just take