The picture is vaguely familiar - I'm guessing WW2, secret code breaking effort or possibly other primitive computing machinery developed during hostilities?
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The picture is vaguely familiar - I'm guessing WW2, secret code breaking effort or possibly other primitive computing machinery developed during hostilities?
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Originally Posted by p38arover
Correct
The Colossus was the worlds first programable computer.
It was years ahead of its time.
Because it was so far advanced and it was used for breaking high level German WW2 codes, it was kept secret until the 1980s.
The technology was improved after the war and its all hush hush after that.
The codes it broke were not Enigma codes but a teletype Ultra hard to break codes called fish using Modulo 2 mathematics'.....Hitler high level stuff.......this machine helped to shorten the war and saved lives,.
The machine used radio valves and very high speed paper tape and advanced tele type/phone technology.
I have one of these but a different brand.
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Enigma
It is a tool used to put rubber bands around the nuts of sheep so they drop off.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
If that is what it is, it is called an "Elastrator". [bigsad]Quote:
It is a tool used to put rubber bands around the nuts of sheep so they drop off.
Eye watering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Farang
I am pretty sure it isn't an elastrator they look more like a pair of plyers and have 4x prongs the "Ring" sits on.
Know the ones you mean, but having looked at the workings of the one pictured, its a 3 prong version, so in theory should do the same job...Quote:
Originally Posted by trout1105
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Sorry, that's not it.
