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Fight Begins To Secure Turing Papers For Bletchley Park Museum

Posted by timothy on from the not-just-apple-Is-any-more dept.

Blacklaw writes "Auction house Christie's is planning to sell offprints of Alan Turing's early work for an estimated £500,000 — and the fight has begun to raise the money so UK codebreaking museum and charity Bletchley Park can house the documents in the building where Turing performed his war-winning work and birthed the concept of a modern 'universal computer.' If the money isn't raised, the papers could disappear into a private archive, never to be seen again."

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  1. Re:The lesson of politics is that... by FuckingNickName · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Can someone please explain why the above post was moderated down? I have suggested that he was not driven to suicide for being homosexual, since anyone in the right situation could get away with practising homosexuality. IOW it was a very selectively enforced law. Recall Churchill on the Navy: rum, sodomy and the lash.

    In what way is this is trolling? thanks.

  2. Re:Who cares! by mysidia · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Don't be silly. It would take away the incentive for Mr Turing's estate to release any new papers.

    There, fixed it for ya