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* MOV x86: using memory mapped lookup tables, you can simulate logic gates and branching using only MOV.

* PowerPoint (Without Macros): using On-Click Animations and Hyperlinks, shapes on slides act as the tape and clicking them triggers animations that move the head or change the state of the slide.

* find and mkdir (Linux Commands): find has a -execdir flag executes commands for directories it finds. By using mkdir to create specific folder structures, you can create a feedback loop that functions as a Tag System (aka universal computation).

* Soldier Crabs: Researchers showed that swarms of Mictyris guinotae can be funneled through gates to implement Boolean logic. While a full computer hasn't been built with them, the logic gates (AND, OR, NOT) are the building blocks for one.

Even water is Turing Complete:

* Fluidic Logic Gates: the Coandă effect is the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a convex surface. By using tiny air or water jets to push a main stream from one channel to another, you can create the fluid equivalent of a transistor.

* MONIAC (Monetary National Income Analogue Computer)

* Navier-Stokes equations describe how fluids move are TC.

* In 2015, Stanford researchers developed a computer that operates using the physics of moving water droplets. Tiny iron-infused water droplets moved by magnetic fields through a maze of tracks. The presence or absence of a droplet represents a 1 or a 0. By colliding or diverting each other, the droplets interact perform calculations.