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nixCraft 🐧

The Ferranti Mark 1 was the first commercially available general-purpose computer. Here is Alan Turing's 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer in PDF format archive.computerhistory.org/re

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I know that Turing was a genius, and that he specialised often in cryptography and all, and that there is probably a very good reason, but really .. WTAF..

@jaark @nixCraft it's Baudot encoding, from the Victorian age of telegraphy 🙂 Looks like a variation on ITA2 here:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot

See also 'baud rate' and 'tty'...

en.m.wikipedia.orgBaudot code - Wikipedia