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Story: At 60, 'Baby' celebrates birth of computing
Manchester, Can't be Right?
Did we really invent the digital computer?? Gosh.
I don't recall we are allowed to have invented or won anything since the flag fell on th4e Empire and The US took all our money, it was always done for us by the nice Americans per movie history.
Next we'll be claiming we inventend the Jet engine, discovered penicillin, unravelled DNA, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and Trafalgar and won the Battle of Britain (all Americans!) .......... created the basis of electrically driven economies even . As an American publication surely you should check your facts and change them as appropriate? ;-)
I now await the Hollywood movie where Tom Cruise and Jeff Goldbloom invent the first Digital stored program electronic computer in Manchester , NH, US of A and use it to kick Commie butt. Hoorah!
Brian
PS Changed double triode J-K flip flop valves in ACE at NPL and remember the arrival of Deuce - the solid state replacement, also EMI's solid state computer of the 60s which led us to the Brain and Body scanner invention from EMI's Central Research Labs. Yup we did stuff, but our boardroom buffer public schoolboys were total tossers - chaps were incompetent at mass production, logistics, marketing and support, only sold to the colonies who had no choice thanks to restrictive trade practices. Empire was our time....and our downfall. But we got a leg up to developed status. Have to stop living off its' infrastructure soon.............
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