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He was the nephew of Bloomsburian Lytton Strachey and the son of a cryptographer.

He also talked a computer into making music for a time ... and was probably the first to do so (in 1951 on a on a Ferranti Mark 1) with evidence to prove it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7458479.stm

https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-f...




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