Today in 1951, the Nimrod Digital Computer, created by British electrical engineering firm Ferranti, was unveiled to the public at the Exhibition of Science in South Kensington, London, as part of the Festival of Britain. The twelve-by-nine-by-five-foot Nimrod was built specifically to play a game, the game of Nim, as demonstration of Ferranti’s compute…
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