1956 E. F. Moore in C. E. Shannon & J. McCarthy 152 It is assumed that the machine is still a finite-state machine.
1988 J. D. Barrow & F. J. Tipler (rev. ed.) iii. 189 The memory of a finite state machine is inadequate to describe everything including itself.
2005 162 1135 We will describe a finite state machine that produces all tame plane graphs.