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aeturnum

Bio: I'm a CS student at CalPoly in San Luis Obispo and a general recluse.

Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in cracking Nazi codes

November 15, 2007 9:08pm

I went to Bletchly this summer and saw the rebuilt Colossus. It's pretty much as awesome as it seems - they even have some vacume tubes from the origional machines (or...from the same time as the origional? I don't recall).

In any case, at the time they had a version of the code breaking system runnin on a laptop (I think it was an older powerbook) and the Colossus, once it had warmed up, kicked the laptop's ass.

I think it'll be an interesting contest.

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