Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

[Alan Turing:]

but from being forced to take overdoses of sex hormomnes

ISTR recall that they didn't *quite* force him - he had the choice of
the drugs or prison...

And didn't they only decide to do something about him and his
'problem' *after* he had finished helping them? ;-(

Werl, sort of - but it was only by that stage that he was being
indiscreet, you know? Back in the Bletchley days, Turing kept his
private affairs private. It was only in later years that he let it be
obvious in public that he had a boyfriend and they were shagging,
y'know? That was the *real* `crime' - letting it show.

Rowland.

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