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The existence of Colossus was kept top secret for 30 years because of the sophistication and sensitivity around the encryption it had helped to break. Many of those who worked on it went on to build other computers and technology.
Occupying the size of a living room, Colossus weighed five tonnes, used 8kW of power and incorporated 2,500 valves and 10,000 resistors connected by 7km of wiring.
The museum is good value. They have a fantastic collection of old boxes, all sorts from home computers to 80s UNIX and VAX machines as well as the really old stuff and ICL mainframe.
It's also housed in the building where my dad used to work. We used to park next to those dilapidated huts waiting for him to come out, completely ignorant of their history. It was from the "sports and social club" there that he hired the first computer I ever encountered, and where the BT training manual on how to build your own microcomputer based on a 6502 came from. So in quite a profound way, Bletchley Park is responsible for me being a computer geek.
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"Colossus was kept a secret for 30 years because of the sensitive work it did during World War Two to crack German codes" - actually, it was kept secret for so long after the war because there were countries, including some that were supposedly our allies, still using the codes (or similar ones) that the work at Bletchley had made crackable. GCHQ weren't going to let them know that we'd broken those codes years before
The museum is good value. They have a fantastic collection of old boxes, all sorts from home computers to 80s UNIX and VAX machines as well as the really old stuff and ICL mainframe.
It's also housed in the building where my dad used to work. We used to park next to those dilapidated huts waiting for him to come out, completely ignorant of their history. It was from the "sports and social club" there that he hired the first computer I ever encountered, and where the BT training manual on how to build your own microcomputer based on a 6502 came from. So in quite a profound way, Bletchley Park is responsible for me being a computer geek.
It's a shame Bletchley Park are trying to disuade people from visiting the museum these days (:
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.
No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.
No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.
You said "dissuade", which makes it sound like representatives of the BPT are going up to visitors saying "TNMoC? Oh no, you don't want to go there, very unpleasant, run a mile in the opposite direction is my advice." I think it's a bit stupid to muck about putting a fence between the two places, but they are in fact two separate institutions on the same site. When I visited a couple of years ago, it was made very clear at the ticket place that I had the choice of paying an additional fee for admission to TNMoC, either there or at TNMoC itself, but that it wasn't included in the admission price for BPT's stuff.
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