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Hail Mr.Turing, may he rest in peace

🔗Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@ihug.co.nz>

4/23/2001 8:09:53 AM

Dear Members of the tuning list,

I am both proud and pleased to have stated here, that I have finally located
a chip, called the BASIC STAMP, and it is from this, AMAZINGLY that it can
be programmed BOTH ANALOGUE AND DIGITALLY!!!!!

WOW!!

This is just so cool that I could cry, because going tdown to the local
electronics shop, expecting to have to take a 5 year course in in depth
electronics and having to wade through endless screeds of information, I
found how pleasantly that I was in fact wrong, and it was uncannily like I
had the chip waiting specifically for me!!!

I am off now today, actually, to the patents office to get out a provisional
patent on these circuits that I mentioned here on this list before, and I
would LOVE to send hardcopys of information to anybody interested.

It is also quite tru, and I have been promiseing you guys this for a long
time, that I have to get my plans sorted out, and to make those microtonal
wall charts that I promised I'd doÂ…

Before I get too far off the tuning topic, I wanted to ask:

COULD A TURING MACHINE EVER MAKE MUSIC DO YOU THINK!!!!!???!?!?!?!?!?

I have a feeling that there just might be a specific set of states that
could prodice interesting music, even if the Turing machine was a 2
dimensional variant, but what specific set of states would that be???

I had laboured long and hard under the assumption that a Turing machine had
to be both one dimensional and binary, and I was actually wrong on both of
those counts.

Any input.

---Sarn.