As one of a small cohort of young men and women working in the “Tin Hut” at Ferranti’s Moston works, Berners-Lee was trained to write programs following a manual written by Alan Turing.
That feels almost on the order of She learned to kindle fire from instructiions given her by Prometheus.
Kindling as a noun is the twigs, leaves, moss or whatever used to start the fire.
I found an article about the computer being delivered to the engineering company in 1960. The Pegasus was a mid-50's design (afaik unrelated to the Mk1) so I'm not sure if it was new or recycled from one of the initial customers.
https://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/memory-la...