Another look at the recent Turing film. Some interesting points. Did he invent the computer? Well not the general purpose ones we expect today.
" ..... The movie’s designers embellished the machine a bit by using bright red electrical wiring to illustrate the effect of a living being with blood-carrying arteries. The machine had to flex to the movie’s narrative and had to be viewable as a work in progress as the story unfolded. The modern-day engineers settled on Adobe Illustrator with a computer-aided design (CAD) plug-in for the design software used to create their Turing machine. This package allowed for texture, light, and visual qualities that they judged to be better than other CAD programs. .... "
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