Re: Implementation of a Turing Machine?

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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:48

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On 21 Feb 2018 11:13:54 GMT, maus <ma...@mail.com> wrote:

>On 2018-02-20, Gene Wirchenko <ge...@telus.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:11:12 +0000, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>><headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 19/02/2018 07:26, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>>
>>>Not enough description of the state machine, though, for
>>>each state need to know action if 1 or 0 read, whether to
>>>write back 1 or 0, and next state whether 1 or 0 read.
>>>
>>>It is particularly fascinating that a Turing Machine could
>>>have been built with the technology available at the time
>>>it was first postualted (1935?)
>>
>>      I do not think that that is that notable.  The machine could have
>> been made back in Babbage's time.  (Too bad Babbage did not come up
>> with something more immediately practical.)

>AFAIhaveread, the problem was that it not possible to machine parts to
>the limits that Babbage's machines needed, at that time.

     I was thinking of that plus that Babbage did not get something
practical going.  That might have helped get mechanical computing
going big.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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