Cryptonomicon's sub-plot about Alan Turing got me interested in reading Andrew Hodges's biography of Alan Turing, "Alan Turing: The Enigma".
http://www.turing.org.uk/book/
So did Tom Jenning's excellent review of the first edition of that book from 2001. After Tom wrote that review, Andrew Hodges later published an even more comprehensive second edition of that book, on which the movie "The Imitation Game" was loosely based.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
Tom Jennings also created FidoNet, published Homocore, and built an electromechanical paper tape driven storytelling machine art installation that incorporated parts of the book and his review.
https://www.amazon.com/review/R2IDYFOKQX8C9T
“. . . Turing was a difficult person: an unapologetic homosexual in post-Victorian England; ground-breaking mathematician; utterly indifferent to social conventions; arrogantly original (working from first principles, ignoring precedents); with no respect for professional boundaries (a ‘pure’ mathematician who taught himself engineering and electronics).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jennings
Aside from creating the most influential protocol for networking computer bulletin boards, Jennings built Wired magazine's first internet presence, wrote the portable BIOS that led to Phoenix Technologies BIOS, ran an early regional internet service provider, The Little Garden (later incorporated as TLGnet, Inc), and maintains an informal archive of Cold War science and technology.
http://machineproject.com/files/press/tomjennings_artus.php
Jennings's installation presents a conglomerated contraption of
antique message devices, connected by cords and wires and plugs
as in an assembly line, all intertwined like the participants in an
orgy. A button placed before the piece invites the viewer to push it,
and doing so the machines come alive. A typewriter with no typist
loudly manufactures the story. On the page a disconnected segment
of inky narrative describes a boyhood in which Turing spoke with
his too-high voice much too often, plus another cryptic bit about
his grave disappointment concerning his treatment by the British
government and something about two men, random fragments
randomly served by a database. Lights blink on another quaint little
device and holes are punched in various rolls of tape that unspool
onto the floor, adding to the already significant pile of coiled dotted
paper. A final note is struck by an odd, tape-recorder-like noisemaker
that seems to bespeak, unintelligibly, a further translation
of the story generated by these melancholy machines.
http://machineproject.com/2003/events/tom-jennings-story-tel...
Story Teller, an installation by Tom Jennings, is an experimental narrative about British mathematician/code breaker Alan Turing told using obsolete media — perforated paper tape, teletype, phoneme-speech, glowing phosphors and ink-on-paper.
http://worldpowersystems.com/products/Story-Teller/
The logical mechanisms within Story Teller are in fact exactly "Turing Machines", and through no coincidence its symbols are stored on data-storage perforated tape of his era; with only 128 possible symbols on the tape (though any number of them, and in any order) Story Teller tells a story of Turing, in text, speech, and time. The components of the configuration used for the Turing story are the Model 3 Tape Reader, the Model 31 Vocalizer, the Gallery Controller, and a Teletype Corporation Model 28 teletype, suitably modified to work in the Story Teller system. Other configurations, such as for speech setup only, are possible.