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[EARLY COMPUTING / ARTIFICIAL or MACHINE INTELLIGENCE / (thought to be the) FIRST BOOK ABOUT A COMPUTER VIDEO GAME] Faster Than Thought: The Ferranti Nimrod Digital Computer. 8vo booklet, publisher's printed card covers, bound with staples, Hollinwood, Lancashire: Ferranti, Ltd. 1951. Note: manufacturers Ferranti custom built a computer to play the game "Nim" at the 1951 Festival of Britain. Alan Turing visited, played, and won against the computer.
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