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Quote: Strachey's first program was 20 pages long; after fixing a couple of errors, it ran to completion and played "God Save the King"
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history of computers
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One visitor to the [University of Manchester's Computing Machine Laboratory] of particular interest … [Strachey's] programme was about 20 pages long (over … length caused not a little amusement among the … I. After a couple of errors were fixed, … (loudspeaker). On that day Strachey acquired a formidable … Google-1 Google-2
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