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Ferranti's NIMROD, a cabinet of lights built to play Nim, went on show at the Festival of Britain as a lesson in how a computer follows rules. Visitors were mostly interested in beating it.
One of the first computers built to be played with rather than used, and an unusually clear case of a company discovering that people will engage with a machine through competition when they will not engage with an explanation. It is often listed among the earliest computer games, with the caveat that its makers did not think of it that way.
