Faster than thought

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1. ggmMar 2022
   I suggest people look for Bowden "Faster than Thought" and put Turing in the context of his peers, and publishing of work that was contemporary, and current at the time. he writes in this about his work, alongside Wilkes and others of his contemporaries in the field. Yes, its very UK specific.

   https://archive.org/details/faster-than-thought-b.-v.-bowden

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2. sonabinuSep 2018
   Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128429.Against_the_Gods

   The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable by James Owen Weatherall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13356644-the-physics-of-...

   Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines (1953) by B. V. Bowden. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/10719/Faster-Than-Tho...

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3. walterbellJun 2014
   A few books on computer / computing / internet history:

   1953, Faster Than Thought, B.V. Bowden (British 1940s & 50s) https://archive.org/details/FasterThanThought

   1984, The Home Computer Wars (Commodore, Atari, Apple) https://archive.org/details/The_Home_Computer_Wars http://www.amazon.com/The-Home-Computer-Wars-Commodore/dp/09...

   1985, History of Computing Technology, Michael Williams (Abacus to IBM360) http://www.amazon.com/History-Computing-Technology-2nd-Editi...

   1985, The Great Telecom Meltdown, Fred Goldstein (USA deregulation) http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/TELECOM_Digest_On...

   2001, The Universal History of Computing, Georges Ifrah (Egypt to 1970s) http://www.amazon.com/The-Universal-History-Computing-Comput...

   2002, Electronic Brains (UK, US & Ukraine soon after WWII) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Brains-Stories-Dawn-Compute...

   2008, Geeks Bearing Gifts, Ted Nelson (rants & factoids) http://www.amazon.com/Geeks-Bearing-Gifts-Ted-Nelson/dp/0578...

   2010, Commodore, A Company on the Edge, Brian Bagnall (war stories from 6502 through C64, no Amiga) http://retroasylum.com/commodore-a-company-on-the-edge-revie... http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Company-Edge-Brian-Bagnall/d...

   2011, The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945–1976, John Harwood http://www.west86th.bgc.bard.edu/book-reviews/interface-ibm....

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4. pncnmnpFeb 2023
   There is also Reconstructing Turing's "Paper Machine": https://en.chessbase.com/post/reconstructing-turing-s-paper-...

   The Google Docs link in this article is made private. However, Turing's original paper is available in "Faster Than Thought", page 288 onwards (https://archive.org/details/faster-than-thought-b.-v.-bowden...).

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5. ggmOct 2022
   Her partner Andrew is in Bowden's work "faster than thought" but regrettably she doesn't seem to be. I think an oversight which would not be made now.

   What an amazing career she had.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth

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