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Home-Built Turing Machine 123

stronghawk writes "The creator of the Nickel-O-Matic is back at it and has now built a Turing Machine from a Parallax Propeller chip-based controller, motors, a dry-erase marker and a non-infinite supply of shiny 35mm leader film. From his FAQ: 'While thinking about Turing machines I found that no one had ever actually built one, at least not one that looked like Turing's original concept (if someone does know of one, please let me know). There have been a few other physical Turing machines like the Logo of Doom, but none were immediately recognizable as Turing machines. As I am always looking for a new challenge, I set out to build what you see here.'"

Comment Re:New Egg not one of my faves (Score 1) 327

Walmart lets you ship for free to your local Walmart store? I'm not aware of that, nor is their web site documentation.

Can I order at Walmart.com and pick up at a store?
Yes, you can for Photo Center and Vision Center items and for some tires. Other items we deliver via the shipping method of your choice, straight to your door or to another address you enter during checkout.

And for a limited time, if you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area, you can purchase select items available only online and pick them up at a Dallas-Fort Worth area store.

Technology

Journal Journal: iRAM provides faster bootup and a list of ramdisk drivers

Giga-byte Technology recently came out with a DRAM-based PC card that operates as a SATA hard drive. The product, iRAM, uses power from the motherboard to keep memory active when the system is shut down. During power outages, the product uses a on-board battery to retain memory for up to 90 minutes. The iRAM card is being talked about in the news (InfoWorld,

Internet Explorer

Journal Journal: Penn State tells users to drop IE 2

This article submission was rejected (12/10/04 12:54p), so I guess I'll put it here. Maybe someone will still find it interesting.

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