Well with our technology in the past this is what our WWII was based on. It was based on allegations and threats, all written in codes, by other countries to ours. In order to understand what the threats were, people had to work numerous hours and days trying to figure out what the codes meant. It was then considered to be a laborious process. "In spite of the destruction of the Colossus hardware and blueprints as part of the effort to maintain a project secrecy that was kept up into the 1970s—a secrecy that deprived some of the Colossus creators of credit for their pioneering advancements in electronic digital computing during their lifetimes—a functional replica of a Colossus computer was completed in 2007"! The newer version doesn't seem very much different, although
it is said to be less confusing.. hm go figure..!Technology is something that not many can live without in this world, it can do the undone!
To read more accurate information about the Colossus Codebreaking Computer you can visit the websites below:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21840430/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
Imagine how long it took the computer to analyse the data. How much space do you think it took up?
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ReplyDeleteWith what i researched it didn't take much space, because it was only for translating codes, what it did take was hours and hours and hours, maybe even days! Or do you mean took space size wise? :), I'm pretty sure probably a whole room, maybe two.. :)
I meant the size of the computer was large. In the 1960's and 70's office computers filled an entire room. Hard to imagine as I work from my laptop on the dining room table! Isn't technology wonderful?
ReplyDeletehahha...Indeed it is!
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