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Article #2500Re: LEGOs -- computationally complete?
From: Jonathan Leech
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 23:42
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 23:42
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In article <4792@orca.WV.TEK.COM> paulsc@radio_flyer.WV.TEK.COM (Paul Scherf) writes:
>While I was in college (a few years ago), a friend of mine and I were
>going to build a Turing machine. We also tried to find articles on
>such things.
Someone built a mechanical Turing machine at Caltech some years
ago (1960s, I think) which was still in use as of a few years ago, as
a demonstration device in the freshman digital logic class. The tape
was ~40 characters long.
--
Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu) __@/
``Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.''
- Ronald Reagan
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