Industrial robot arm used as a hypnotic clock
January 18, 2008 10:53am
Food company's annual report needs to be baked before reading
November 16, 2007 2:35am
Brings a whole new meaning to 'cooking the books'!
Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in cracking Nazi codes
November 15, 2007 8:39am
@Thorzdad, the colossus wasn't a general purpose computer such as modern PCs. It was essentially a big calculator capable of running only one hard-wired algorithm. Programming it was via a patch panel, which switched different circuits in and out.
It was purpose built to speed up cracking of the Lorenz cipher, and once this was no longer needed, colossus could not be repurposed to other tasks.
I wrote an essay a while ago comparing Colossus, Mark I and Zuse Z4, if your interested in early computers.
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Surely this is robotic creulty and/or abuse. Not only do we have them do boring, repetitive tasks, but now we have them doing pointless, boring, repetitive tasks!