Today's version of the Colossus took 14 years to assemble, according to Anthony Sale, who headed the team that rebuilt the computer.
"All the drawings were burnt in 1960, so all we had to go on were 6 black-and-white photos and 10 fragments of circuit diagrams," Sale said. "The machine has 2,500 valves, so it was a challenge piecing it all together."
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- I love this stuff!
I've been putting some time into researching a lot old cryptography things and I came upon this excellent Enigma simulator:
http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmasim.htm
If you're interested in this sort of thing, the Enigma sim is a must to play around with.... (Read the rest) - Posted by: dstrachan@doc.govt.nz Posted on: 06/05/08 You are currently: Logged In as: a Guest | Login | Terms of Use
enigma machine....
wedge@... | 06/04/08
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That's what I thought
morrigen | 06/05/08
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oop's
morrigen | 06/05/08
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Really nice gallery!
skeptic-2 | 06/04/08
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RE: (Photos: Code makers and breakers of WWII era)
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