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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. Re:Enough! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You forget that Alan Turing himself though he was doing something wrong. You might try to rewrite history, extend your imagination to say it was not despicable. But it was and thanks to the pro-gay movement today we have enough STDs and broken families. There is zero - nothing at all - usefull or interesting about this person for today's cryptography. Just move on!