2025/08/26

 

From Bones to Turing Machines

The Lebombo Bone and Other Ancient Mathematical Objects
African Binary code

  The Ishango Bone

Turing Machine Simulator
Turing Machine Simulator 2
Turing Machine Simulator 3 (Java)

A Turing Machine Overview
BTW, my thoughts on the recent Turing Biopic and a related news article.


Some resources about the Abacus
The Abacus in Various Number Systems
Demo (The Chinese Abacus)
Mechanical Calculators
The Pascaline




The Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism
NOVA: Ancient Computer




Another video of the Antikythera Mechanism
Babbage, Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
The Difference Engine
The Analytical Engine
9 Neat Facts About the World's First Computer Programmer, Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine
Helping Ada Lovelace with her Homework: Classroom Exercises from a Victorian Calculus Course








It Started Digital Wheels Turning


Cool implementation of Babbage's Difference Engine using LEGO! Photos, description of adder and carry propagation logic, mechanical issues, etc. at: By Andy Carol


Von Neumann's Computer Archicture
Von Neumann, J. (1945). “First draft of a report on the EDVAC". Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. DOI: 10.5479/sil.538961.39088011475779.
John von Neumann and the “Report on the EDVAC” from An An Illustrated History of Computers.
Dyson, George. Turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital universe. Pantheon, 2012.


The Manchester Baby (1948)




MESM 1950 (Kyiv)


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