Programmers Handbook For Manchester Electronic Computer Mark Ii I E The Ferranti Mark I Late 1950

by Alan Mathison Turing

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First edition · Signed

1951. / First edition, extremely rare, of “the world's first computer programming manual” Copeland & Long , written by Turing for the Ferranti Mark I, the first commercially available electronic digital computer and the machine Turing referred to as the Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II. The present copy is inscribed “with the compliments of A. M. Turing” and is accompanied by nine further mimeographed items — a letter from Turing and four of the

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