Alan Turing's Manchester | Virtual Talk

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[@FergalByrne]

Excellent talk thanks Jonathan! I can confirm the sad story of UK computing as I spent two student Summers (1991/2) at ICL in West Gorton, helping with mainframe chip design and then the giveaway mainframe database software you described. Things were getting grimmer by the week there and it wasn’t long before it was all over.

[@WilliamHarbert69]

Fascinating presentation. Thank you.

[@gustinian]

Extremely interesting talk, thank you. Our school had acquired an Elliot 803B from that era and few could fathom it sufficiently to program it via paper tape let alone its potential uses. As for attempting biological mathematics, Turing was freakishly gifted. That said, he clearly wasn't working in a vacuum.