| Description | Thanks him for his letter about Turing. Gold did know him, and had great respect for him. Describes how Turing visited Gold in his lab in the Admiralty Signals Establishment during the war, and Turing told him about the range of applications that electronic computers would have one day - including all the data processing that they are now familiar with. Gold was most impressed with this, and thought of him in relation to the Ratio Club. Gold met him a few times in Cambridge and in Manchester and discussed speculative matters as well as hardware with him. Gold had designed the memory unit for Wilkes' computer in Cambridge, the EDSAC, and advised that this was better than the Manchester CRT system.
Gold does not think he can contribute very much more. States Hodges can use the statement that Gold was most impressed with Turing's magnificent imagination, superimposed on a brilliantly logical mind. |