From "Calling your computer a Turing Machine is controversial" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709009 : >

From "Calling your computer a Turing Machine is controversial" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37709009 : > Turing was familiar with the Jacquard loom for weaving patterns on punch cards and Babbage's, and was then tasked with brute-forcing a classical cipher. And before the Jacquard loom was the music box. Music box > Timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box#Timeline Jacquard machine > Importance in computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine#Importance_in_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine#Importance_in... Mechanical computer > Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer#Examples : > Antikythera: c. 100BC (a mechanical astronomical clock)