The Father of Computing...

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I also have 1 min HD video clip of working colussus code breaking machine rebuilt replica... youtube upload failing at the moment...

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer in the mean time :D Will get the clip as soon as I can...

In spite of the destruction of the Colossus hardware and blueprints as part of the effort to maintain a project secrecy that was kept up into the 1970s—a secrecy that deprived some of the Colossus creators of credit for their pioneering advancements in electronic digital computing during their lifetimes—a functional replica of a Colossus computer was completed in 2007.
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"My laptop digested ciphertext at a speed of 1.2 million characters per second—240 times faster than Colossus. If you scale the CPU frequency by that factor, you get an equivalent clock of 5.8 MHz for Colossus. That is a remarkable speed for a computer built in 1944."
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More interesting reading material: History of computing hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Finally found time to upload pics of BP round 2: Picasa Web Albums - Vishal - Bletchley Par...

Also, as promised, HD video clip of the Colossus:

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And a bunch of classic computers on display at the museum:

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Was an excellent trip, reminiscing about it already...
 
Heh, trip down memory lane, Sinclar's ZX spectrum, BBC, orginal mac, Apple's IIe, a C64 & perhaps an Amstrad.
 
Lord Nemesis said:
Just some tidbits that not many people many know about the father of computing.

1. He was a cryptanalyst during the world war II era. He is one of those great mathematicians cum cryptanalyst's I was referring to in the Ankit Fadia thread. He was the guy responsible for the first electro-mechanical computers for breaking the german enigma codes faster than every other means they had before.

2. He was conceived when his parents were in India. :P

3. He was a Homosexual (He was convicted for the same) and alleged child molester. He supposedly committed suicide for the humiliation the British govt made him go through.
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i think the british govemerment did not want him alive... therefore the british goverment accused him of being homo and injected hormone, even though they had horrible effect on people before him
 
yea, i love a conspiracy theory too, you never know who/what really brought about his death via poisoned apple and why...
 
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