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"The machine's not enjoying this - it's gone on strike"

"the machine's obviously not in the mood"

Really fascinating to hear these little snippets from someone (the computer operator probably?) on the recording!

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Ah, thanks, I had the same issue, should've thought to include that.

While I'm commenting: I think the (original) title undersells the significance - the recording is from Turing's computing lab at Manchester, 1951.

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"This audio is embedded from SoundCloud and requires cookies to function. To view this content, please enable analytics and marketing cookies using the cookies opt-in at the bottom of your screen." - lame!
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You can download it from SoundCloud using yt-dlp.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

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