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From: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu ("Steve" Stevenson)
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Subject: What were real machines which helped Turing?
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Date: 15 Jan 91 19:16:58 GMT
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In a class I'm teaching, I was trying to get the students into the historical
context in the 1920-1940 time frame. The Atansoff computer was probably
known to Alan Turing. Did this help in his formulation? Did he ever say where
the ideas came from? What other machines were there then that might have
contributed to his formulation?-- 
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Steve (really "D. E.") Stevenson           steve@hubcap.clemson.edu
Department of Computer Science,            (803)656-5880.mabell
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906