Re: [TUHS] Some notes on running UNIX v6 in 2015, using SimH and a healthy dose of documentation - TUHS

5 Dec 2015

Hi,

Don't forget the Zuse machines, which were later proven to be Turing
complete. It is certainly fascinating to see handling binary floating point
numbers in a purely mechanical device (check it out if you happen to be in
Berlin). Later machines were electromechanical and electronics.

Regards,
Szabolcs

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 2015.12.04. 15:52 ezt írta ("John Cowan" &lt;cowan(a)mercury.ccil.org&gt;)
>
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey scripsit:
>
> > Take a look at CSIRAC in the Melbourne museum, the oldest computer in
> > the world.  It's worth it, even if they don't have it running.
>
> Well, there's the Antikythera mechanism.
>
> --
> John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan(a)ccil.org
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> with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.  --Gerald Holton
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