Blogs Alan Turing collection saved

Back in issue 89 of Custom PC, you may remember that our own ex-news hound Gareth Halfacree wrote about his efforts to raise funds in order to purchase a rare collection of Alan Turing's papers. Through the power of Twitter and a generous donation from Google of $100,000, Gareth raised just under £90,000 for the Bletchley Park Trust so that it might purchase the documents for public display....

http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2011/03/10/alan-turing-collection-saved/

 

Wow, that is a wonderful 'I haven't lost faith in humanity story'. Knowing that such important relics of early computer science will be on public display warms the heart far more than knowing that they will languish in a private collection somewhere.

 

considering their contribution, is Google going to scan them and put them on the web?

 

Agreed, Google should make them available for the whole world to see

 

Seconded!

 

Thirded!