After Math: Merry Christmas, you filthy animals

1951: That was the year that the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer ever, was invited on to the BBC for a special holiday performance wherein it R2-D2’d its way through a number of Christmas standards. This year, Turing archive director Jack Copeland and composer Jason Long have managed to recreate …

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