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A Universal Turing Machine In 100 Punchcards

Posted by timothy on from the animation-to-blow-your-mind dept.

New submitter theclockworkcomputer writes "100 years ago tomorrow, Alan Turing was born. To celebrate, I wrote a Universal Turing Machine in 100 Punchcards. I've uploaded a video to explain a small part of the read head (the Jacquard). One needle is shown out of a total of 28. As this is about a program for a Turing Machine and not about a Turing Machine itself, I hope to be excused from the requirement of infinite tape."

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  1. irony of Alan's death by peter303 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He was hounded into dangerous therapies because of his sexual orientation. Now the largest computer company in the world is run by a gay man. What would Alan had given us with another 20 years?

    1. Re:irony of Alan's death by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Please don't compare people who have actually done stuff like Alan Turing to management jobs that any idiot is qualified for.

  2. schematic by theclockworkcomputer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For who is interested here is a schematic of the machine