Alan Turing's Pilot Ace computer - the world's first general purpose computer

Alan Turing's Pilot Ace computer - the world's first general purpose computer

Built in the 1950s and one of the Science Museum's 20th century icons, The Pilot Ace "automatic computing engine" was the world's first general purpose computer -- and for a while was the fastest computer in the world. We now take the ability to carry out a range of tasks on our computers for granted, but it all started with the principles developed by mathematician Alan Turing in the 1930s and his design for the Ace. In this film, Professor Nick Braithwaite of the Open University discusses its significance with Tilly Blyth, curator of Computing and Information at the Science Museum.

[jarrodyuki]

silicon valley has a museum giving the history of computers.

[jagc]

Wrong information. Turing wasn't involved with Colossus. It was devised and built by Tommy Flowers.

[AKrn]

You didn't say anything about the Pilot Ace computer.

[ScoalaTimisoara]

Oh so now he`s a genius ? But u had to kill him via chemical castration; Could not let him be ...

[ufoengines]

Cool!   To bad Babbage did not have this FLODAC tech. Patent 3190554 . The pipe organ folks could have made his engines for him and Lovelace could have invented COBOL .