Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

Chris Burton is one of the world's leading restorers of historic computers. Professor Martin Campbell-Kelly is the UK’s foremost computer historian. Dr Roger Johnson is a past President of the British Computer Society. Professor Simon Lavington is the Computer Conservation Society’s digital Archivist. All are committee members of the Computer Conservation Society.

• 1.The ideas men.2.Ivory towers and tea rooms.3.The Manchester machines4.Meanwhile, in deepest Hertfordshire5.One man in a barn6.Aces and Deuces7.Into the market place8.Hindsight and foresight: Turing’s legacy9.Bibliography and references10.Timeline: Alan Turing’s life with computers.11.Index.

Fantastic! This is an excellent romp through early computer history, placing Alan Turing’s work in a broader context and introducing the reader to some of the significant machines and personalities that created our digital world. The myth of a lone inventor is rarely true - this book leads the reader through complex but intriguing stories of the sung and unsung heroes and machines of a pioneering computing industry.