
Shame on Stephen Fry, who this week during 'QI' gave the impression that Alan Turing designed 'Colossus', the world's first programmable electronic computer. As we all know (or should do), it was proposed and designed by Post Office engineer Thomas 'Tommy' Flowers.
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Sun 4 Dec 2011, 20:13,
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it was given to him by the wicked queen as he was a gay.
i think he's still in a glass coffin guarded by dwarfs.
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Sun 4 Dec 2011, 20:23,
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i think he's still in a glass coffin guarded by dwarfs.

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Sun 4 Dec 2011, 20:19,
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I know his type.
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Sun 4 Dec 2011, 20:22,
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im typing this on my difference engine mk1....
anyway colusses wasnt a computer, more a code breaking machine
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Sun 4 Dec 2011, 20:59,
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anyway colusses wasnt a computer, more a code breaking machine

He failed to express every detail of every nuance of the subject he was mentioning briefly within the constraints of an essentially meaningless light entertainment formatted prgramme. He should be sellotaped to a Rancor set loose in war-torn Baghdad. My outrage sustains me, fortunately, as I've nothing else to give.
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