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From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What were real machines which helped Turing?
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Date: 24 Jan 91 15:42:38 GMT
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If you go to the Deutches Museum in Munich there is quite a sizeable
exhibition on the history of calculating machines and computers. The
general thrust of the historical overview there is that the modern
computer was invented in Germany (also, given the amount of ancient
equipment donated by them, the biggest computer company is something
called IBM Deutchland). Amongst the vast amount of info about the
German fathers of computing is one small notice which basically
states that this person in England called Alan Turing was working 
on similar ideas and that he did something quite important around
the early 1940s but for some reason they don't actually say
what that was :-)


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