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"The papers are thought to be of particular historical value as much of Turing's war-time work was destroyed under the Official Secrets Act and the man himself
by Dylanlacey 16y ago
"The papers are thought to be of particular historical value as much of Turing's war-time work was destroyed under the Official Secrets Act and the man himself kept few personal possessions."
- rtyhjukiujhygtf 16y agoYes - thats the point, all the interesting stuff - the notes on enigma and the invention of the computer are gone. All we have are a bunch of preprints from the 30s - but these are preprints of journals that do exist (note to those under 50 : upto to the 1980s journals would send you a few dozen unbound copies of your paper for you to distribute - before photocopiers were common)