In the history of Enigma, the folk at Bletchley Park wanted to build a
working replica of Colossus. They thought that the cost of
manufacturing WW2-era telephone relays would be prohibitive, until they
found that BT was just converting all their exchanges to electronic
switching!
cheers,
Nigel
On 2024-07-22 22:14, dwight via cctalk wrote:
Bob Rosenbloom started to make a relay computer, using pc boards, but found
that typical dip relays talk to each other ( leaky magnetic fields ) .
Konrad Zuse made several attempts but making useful electromechanical memory
was his down fall.
As a kid, I used a handful of radioshack relays to make a sequenced electrical
lock. One had to enter four each four bit numbers to turn on the lock. Any
wrong number and you had to start over. I think that was first the first time I
did a logical design. You'd set the 4 toggle switches for the next number in
sequence and then enter it.
Not a computer but then, I was just a kid.
Dwight
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