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Colossus @ Bletchley Park

20 Aug 2013

This is the tour around Bletchley Park and took in all the old school Crypto stuff including a trip around The National Meuseum of Computing.

There are 100's of small exhibits there but one ofo the best is the Colossus the worlds first electronic computer

Glowing valves, the hum of the paper tape feed all add to the excitement as well as a talk delivered by a staff member

Hope you enjoy the vid.

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shabaz over 9 years ago +1

A short Bletchley article in the news today. How the British and Americans started listening in - BBC News

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DAB over 12 years ago

Great Video.

I am amazed that they can get the device to work at all after all of these years.

It was a tremendous accomplishment for its day.

Though I have to point out, it was the Polish Intelligence people who first cracked the Enigma codes. They gave the British a tremendous head start in 1939.

Just a thought,
DAB

PS, I used to load paper tape into computers in my early years. I can still hear the chatter of the ASR 33 paper tape reader. The sound will haunt me for ever. Chunka chunka chunka chunka.
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Problemchild over 12 years ago in reply to DAB

I have a few shots of one of the volunteers busily checking and replacing the valves. i'll do a proper post if you are interested

Here's the WITCH/Harwell Dekatron in the mean time
http://www.element14.com/community/people/Problemchild/blog/2013/08/21/witch-aka-harwell-dekatron
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Problemchild over 12 years ago in reply to DAB

I have a few shots of one of the volunteers busily checking and replacing the valves. i'll do a proper post if you are interested

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