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(British) National Museum of Computing: The reverse-engineered reimplementation of the Colossus computer. It's running the same codebreaking code it ran during the war. It's trying out candidate subkeys against a string of ciphertext, and reporting which candidates produce a plaintext that is statistically nonrandom (low entropy indicating that the candidate key may match the actual key). The computer has such a small amount of memory that the ciphertext can't be stored, so instead it's read anew for each test from the endlessly-cycling paper tape on the right; the reader reads at 5000 chars/second -- faster than many commercial paper tape readers of the 50s and 60s.
At The National Museum of Computing www.tnmoc.org at Bletchley Park, on a trip with Sarah, Jenny and Stephen AKA Spacedog.
At The National Museum of Computing www.tnmoc.org at Bletchley Park, on a trip with Sarah, Jenny and Stephen AKA Spacedog.
Event Title:Retro Computing
Speaker:Plymouth University/BCS South West
Event Date:21 November 2011, 19:00
Event Location:Sherwell Conference Centre, Plymouth University