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blinry replied to blinry

I'm in Bletchley! :) Was greeted by a cat committee.

Me smiling in front of Bletchley station.
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blinry replied to blinry

Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works!

You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's *loud*!!

They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape!

I'm typing on a typewriter-like device.
A man stands in front of a big device with many rotating wheels.
A computer as big as three big wardrobes, with many vacuum tubes.
Paper tape with punched-out holes on wheels.
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