My grandfather collected music boxes. Some of which had replaceable cams. Others had adjustable cams. In a sense, software. Player piano rolls and Jacquard loom cards are also early examples, as would screw machine cams be.
Major developers of digital computers would include Turing. He demonstrated that a Turing machine could compute anything that could be computed, given patience, so if one's machine could implement a Turing machine, it was a computer. John Von Neumann was an early architect of practical machines of this nature.
My grandfather collected music boxes. Some of which had replaceable cams. Others had adjustable cams. In a sense, software. Player piano rolls and Jacquard loom cards are also early examples, as would screw machine cams be.
Major developers of digital computers would include Turing. He demonstrated that a Turing machine could compute anything that could be computed, given patience, so if one's machine could implement a Turing machine, it was a computer. John Von Neumann was an early architect of practical machines of this nature.
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