Today several photos and documents were released of the earliest, and most secret, computers.
In the Munich Museum of Technology there is a section devoted to communication and computing. In it are all kinds of noteworthy equipment. They have real pieces of different mainframes and switches. They also gave a mockup of Collasus, which I found interesting. Highly recommend.
LWD@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m adding Tommy Flowers, post office engineer turned computer whiz, to my list of tech heroes.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wondered how this related to Alan Turing’s now-famous work cracking Enigma. TIL.
wikibot@lemmy.world [bot] 10 months ago
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 - 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages.
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