14 thoughts on “ Go Forth With This Portable Programmer ” ... FORTH guy: I will build a machine that will make bring FORTH back from the dead. World: I will port BASIC to it.

It has roots in the zeitgeist of science fiction, glamorizing humanoid robots and spurred by people like Alan Turing, who was writing about computing machinery and intelligence as far back as 1950.

The dowel to be cut was loaded, and the machine ran back and forth enough times to create a very nice-looking screw thread. And once you’ve made two identical threaded dowels, you can use them ...