Welcome to the homepage of the Manchester Mark I emulator by David Link!






HONEY LOVE
        YOU ARE MY SEDUCTIVE HEART: MY UNSATISFIED HUNGER. MY SYMPATHY LUSTS FOR YOUR FERVENT LUST. MY DEAR ARDOUR ADORES YOUR BURNING TENDERNESS. MY FANCY EAGERLY LUSTS FOR YOUR FONDNESS.
                                YOURS IMPATIENTLY
                                           M. U. C.
The emulator currently runs Christopher Strachey's "Loveletters" program from 1952 in its original form.

The Mark 1's forerunner was the "baby" machine that executed its first program in June, 1948. Then, the Manchester Mark I prototype was built and used from April 1949 to August 1950. In February, 1951, it was replaced by the industrially manufactured Ferranti Mark I that actually ran the loveletter program. More information on its history can be found here.

>>> Information on the Resurrection project ::: LoveLetters_1.0



My article on the subject,

There Must Be an Angel. On the Beginnings of the Arithmetics of Rays, in: Variantology 2. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, eds. Siegfried Zielinski, and David Link (Cologne: König, 2006): 15-42. (HTML)

appeared inVariantology 2. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies, eds. Siegfried Zielinski, and David Link (Cologne: König, 2006).
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