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Just to be clear, I wasn't basing this on any one paper but on the history of computers.
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Paper gets straight down to business without any clues about where the model came from, in proper mathematical style :-)
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I'm willing to bet a good biography of Turing might shed some light. Maybe even something online but I'd not hold my breath.
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Yeah, I am wondering vaguely about how computation was done in Cambridge at that time, remembering women being barely tolerated :-/
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Right! This sheds some light! "Alan had dreamt of inventing typewriters as a boy; [his mother] Mrs. Turing had a typewriter; and he could"
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That's from here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine …
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Computation work was correctly seen as drudgery and hence they built machines to address it. I think sexism merely meant they have this work
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seen as boring too women. Don't forget that originally software programming was deemed boring and simplistic so also delegated to women.
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The real men only dealt with hardware. Ha.
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*have = gave, *too =to
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