Comments on: WWII code-breaking computer goes head to head with modern pc http://futurismic.com/2007/11/15/wwii-code-breaking-computer-goes-head-to-head-with-modern-pc/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Paul Raven http://futurismic.com/2007/11/15/wwii-code-breaking-computer-goes-head-to-head-with-modern-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-6366 Paul Raven Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:34:31 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/11/15/wwii-code-breaking-computer-goes-head-to-head-with-modern-pc/#comment-6366 Point taken, Mike, but I don't think the British can be accused of having a monopoly on secrecy ... ;) Point taken, Mike, but I don’t think the British can be accused of having a monopoly on secrecy … ;)

]]> By: ZZMike http://futurismic.com/2007/11/15/wwii-code-breaking-computer-goes-head-to-head-with-modern-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-6253 ZZMike Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:34:12 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/11/15/wwii-code-breaking-computer-goes-head-to-head-with-modern-pc/#comment-6253 The British do love their secrets. The Bletchley project was absolutely secret until fairly recently. Many of the people working there had to endure their neighbor's suspicion - wondering "just what did you do during the war?" - because they were forbidden to tell anybody anything. Breaking up Colossus is surely another example. In some ways, it made sense - you couldn't just put it in a back closet somehwere. The plans certainly should have been kept. It's amazing that one of the original designers - Tommy Flowers - is still around. The British do love their secrets. The Bletchley project was absolutely secret until fairly recently. Many of the people working there had to endure their neighbor’s suspicion – wondering “just what did you do during the war?” – because they were forbidden to tell anybody anything.

Breaking up Colossus is surely another example. In some ways, it made sense – you couldn’t just put it in a back closet somehwere. The plans certainly should have been kept. It’s amazing that one of the original designers – Tommy Flowers – is still around.

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