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A Turing Machine (aturingmachine.com)
28 points by wallflower on Dec 16, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Hey, I see this almost every week! It is sitting in the lobby of the storage building of the Computer History Museum[0] which is in Milpitas, CA. Unfortunately it is not presently on display to the public; only staff and volunteer workers go into the storage building. Here's the not very interesting catalog record[1].

Thank you for posting this; although I have walked by and looked at it often, and had been told it was functional, I did not realize until I saw these videos how the erase head worked, or that it draws those well-formed "1" and "0" characters.

[0] http://www.computerhistory.org/

[1] http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102682867





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