Copy Correspondence

Scope and Content

Comprises: B1, Photocopy of letter, 12 April 1950, from Turing to Rainford at Manchester University, requesting a duplicating machine and a desk calculating machine. We are starting a small information service, partly internal and partly external to the university, for the purpose of letting potential users of the machine know what processes have been programmed for the machine and how to take advantage of the programmes...The desk calculator is necessary because it is not always desirable to do every calculation on the electronic computer....