Colossus rebuilt

[sPoNiX]

Slightly off-topic bit of nostalgia. The world's first electronic
computer, Colossus, has been rebuilt at Bletchley park and is finally
finished:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3754887.stm

sPoNiX

 

[martin griffith]

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:18:58 GMT, in sci.electronics.design you wrote:

Slightly off-topic bit of nostalgia. The world's first electronic
computer, Colossus, has been rebuilt at Bletchley park and is finally
finished:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3754887.stm

sPoNiX
neat, one line I liked was

"He argues that the original Colossus was so powerful, it would take
current computers the same amount of time to break codes."




martin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

 

[Kevin Aylward]

martin griffith wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:18:58 GMT, in sci.electronics.design you wrote:

Slightly off-topic bit of nostalgia. The world's first electronic
computer, Colossus, has been rebuilt at Bletchley park and is finally
finished:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3754887.stm

sPoNiX
neat, one line I liked was

"He argues that the original Colossus was so powerful, it would take
current computers the same amount of time to break codes."

Yeah, I read that. The dudes dreaming. Its the old fart moaning, "they
didn't make them like they used to" sort of thing.

Kevin Aylward
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