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Not Invented Here by Bill Barnes and friends for October 03, 2016
September 29, 2016
October 04, 2016
A Turing machine wouldn’t impress the Right Honorable lady. As a practical computer, it’s ridiculously restricted and inefficient, and, as a theoretical construct, it would have no evident point, the Entscheidungsproblem not having yet been stated. The best way to impress her with the aid of a time machine would be to stop off in 1959 and steal the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC, also known as the Harvard Mark I) just before it was demolished. It wasn’t up to the full specs of the Analytical Engine, but, compared to the Analytical Engine, it enjoyed the tremendous advantage of actually existing.