Archive for 8th February 2010

Alan Turing and the Ace computer 8 Feb 2010

Yet more interesting reading on Britain’s contribution to early computing. [Ace] ran for the first time on 10 May 1950. By modern standards it was sluggish but in its day was the fastest in the world. And, whilst investigating how it could be used, the team uncovered another problem that looked set to dog greater [...]