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by Dylanlacey 5594 days ago
"The papers are thought to be of particular historical value as much of Turing's war-time work was destroyed under the Official Secrets Act and the man himself kept few personal possessions."
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Yes - thats the point, all the interesting stuff - the notes on enigma and the invention of the computer are gone. All we have are a bunch of preprints from the 30s - but these are preprints of journals that do exist

(note to those under 50 : upto to the 1980s journals would send you a few dozen unbound copies of your paper for you to distribute - before photocopiers were common)