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Mechanical computer


@mcduff wrote:

Here's a neat early mechanical computer that used punch cards for weaving patterns.

 

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/this-essential-piece-of-computing-history-just-sold-for-4375...


I wander if it's Turing complete though.

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Then it could weave a never ending peace of cloth, with the decimals of PI as pattern.
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There is a hardware limit once the supply of yarn is consumed in the known universe.

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