Things you can find in Milan

22 Feb 2023

Turing-endorsed typewriters.

I wondered if the store owner just thinks it’s cool to relate typewriters to Turing machines. However, in Wikipedia it writes:

“… Turing had a lifelong interest in machines: “Alan had dreamt of inventing typewriters as a boy; [his mother] Mrs. Turing had a typewriter; and he could well have begun by asking himself what was meant by calling a typewriter ‘mechanical’” (Hodges p. 96). While at Princeton pursuing his PhD, Turing built a Boolean-logic multiplier …”

Maybe Turing did had some inspiration from typewriters.