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Cliff Wells LogiplexSoftware at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 31 19:42:44 EST 2002 
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 14:17, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Cliff Wells fed this fish to the penguins on Monday 30 December 2002 
> 09:25 pm:
> 
> > based on preconceptions.  Consider a "programmable" toy that was
> > popular
> > several years ago.  You could specify, by using a numeric keypad on
> > it,
> > how far it should go in a given direction and various other things. 
> > It certainly wasn't Turing-complete and yet it was certainly a
> > "program"
> > entered onto its keypad.  If you claim that the what was entered on
> 
>         Ah, but with enough memory, and assuming some sort of external sensor, 
> one could maybe turn that toy into a R/W head for a physical Turing 
> machine <G>
> 
>         (Now there is something to be afraid of... Some toddler using a long 
> line of wood blocks as the "bits" of Turing machine with a Lego 
> Mindstorms robot, prebuilt of course, as the R/W head)

Or it could launch the wooden blocks like missiles!  Cool!

Making-vroom-vroom-noises'ly yrs,


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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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