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steve@geosys.co.uk (Steve Hawtin) writes:
>In the BBC version (called "The Dream Machine") I thought the
>title of "first working programmable electronic computer" was
>applied to the Manchester University machine, how different was
>"The Machine that Changed the World" from "The Dream Machine". 

As I posted in another message, I blew it:  ENIAC was "the first working
electronic computer", rather than "the first programmable..."; the Manchester
machine was given the "first programmable" title by the show.

>I must say I thought the running order of the BBC series was a
>touch odd it did tend to spend a long time talking about
>developments in the US, then go on to discuss earlier
>devlopments in the UK in a "separate" section.  Has all the
>stuff about Alan Turing's vital contribution via Bletchley Park
>and his visit to the US in 1941 (?) been removed?

They certainly discussed Turing.  I don't remember the visit to the US, but
they probably did show it and I just forgot.