Alan Turing’s ACE computer is a legendary computer that is particularly special for I Programmer – our account of it was the first ever history article on the site when it launched in 2009. Now this iconic machine is being rendered as a fully working virtual machine. Once it’s complete we’ll be able to interact with it.This project is been undertaken by Martin Gillow and is the latest in a series of virtual reality experiences of the historic computing machines curated by TNMOC, the UK’s National Museum of Computing.
The original was Gillow’s Virtual Colossus, which was brought onto our radar again by this item on Boing Boing. What we discovered when we followed the link to Virtual Colossus is that a lot of work has been done in the last few years.
