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File:Strachey draughts ferranti.jpg

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English: Picture of Christopher Strachey's 1952 Draughts program on a Ferranti Mark 1
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Source Crop of https://videogamehistorian.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/res60f.jpg
Author Christopher Strachey

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Public domain This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
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Christopher Strachey's Draughts on the Manchester Mark 1, circa 1952

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current19:42, 14 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 19:42, 14 February 2026361 × 345 (40 KB)PresNFlipped/rotated board; per Strachey's original paper, this was the intented orientation of the screen
03:56, 20 December 2015Thumbnail for version as of 03:56, 20 December 2015361 × 345 (41 KB)PresNUser created page with UploadWizard

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