Re: Implementation of a Turing Machine?

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From: Quadibloc
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:05

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On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 4:13:55 AM UTC-7, maus wrote:

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

Arthur C. Clarke claimed this in _Profiles of the Future_. However, since 
Babbage's Analytical Engine was a digital computer, not an analogue computer, it 
should have been possible, with conservative design, to get one to work even if 
one had to make do with poor-quality machining.

Konrad Zuse's first working computer, although made in a very different manner, 
was mechanical.

John Savard

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