A recent jibe around in the BBC ’s archives has resulted in an unexpected discovery : transcription made in 1951 of a Ferranti Mark 1 computer playacting tune . Predating what was thought previously to be the first ( on a Bell Labs IBM mainframe in 1957 ) the tapes were made during a recording of Children ’s Hour in Manchester University . The Ferranti was the first commercially uncommitted general determination data processor , and can be get a line beeping through God relieve the King , Baa Baa Black Sheep and In the Mood … slow , and a snatch scratchily since the recording are 57 twelvemonth old . Interestingly , the package was written by a chap call Christopher Strachey , a booster of Alan Turing . select to the BBC linkup to get a line this fleck of History in natural process , and wonder how far we ’ve hail since . [ BBCviaThe asker ]
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