[GreenKeys] Book of possible interest

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

On 6 August 2015 at 02:17, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> BTW, it's said if you say "Bletchley Park" to someone, you'll get one of
> two responses: complete blankness, or Utter Delight; that's where It All
> Happened (tm)...
>
Actually there's three possible responses: The two you listed, and
"Oh, those s<redacted>heads." The last response is mostly regarding
the current management of the Bletchley Park site, and how they're
doing their best to screw over the people at The National Museum of
Computing. (TNMOC: The people with the working Colossus; and who are
currently rebuilding EDSAC.) TNMOC is awesome; the current
administrators of BP are not.

In fact you could say the people currently in charge of BP evoke the
same feelings as the people in charge of the other BP...


> SSEM -> Manchester Mk-I -> Atlas -> Ferranti -> Bombe -> Colossus (I
> think), and the rest is history...
>
First in that list was the Turing-Welchman Bombe. Which was not a
computer. It was the equivalent of 60 Enigma machines glued together.

The first of those that could be classed as a computer was the Colossus. Then:
SSEM --> Manchester Mark I --> Ferranti Mark I --> Ferranti Pegasus
--> Ferranti Mercury --> Atlas

The EDSAC would go into that list between the SSEM and the Manchester Mark I.


Cheers,
Christian
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