Mechanical computer

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@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...

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I wander if it's Turing complete though.

Spoiler

Then it could weave a never ending peace of cloth, with the decimals of PI as pattern.

[altenbach]

There is a hardware limit once the supply of yarn is consumed in the known universe.