Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message <[email protected]>, Magnus Danielson writes:
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
As far as I know, the first RNG to be connected to a computer was this
one:
The first analog random generator that was hooked to any form of digital
circuit must be the random generator used to generate the key-records
used in the SIGSALY system during WWII.
I think that is not the case, I have found references to some telephone
queue-simulations done with punched cards involving a radioactive
decay as a RNG. I have not found the original document though.
The Americans eventually got into the act, with the RAND Corporation producing a
book of 1 million random digits in 1955. It's described in some detail and with
sardonic humor on my friend Tom's website.
http://wps.com/projects/million/
(Yes, that is a tattoo of the ITA2 character set on his arm. ASCII is on the
other arm.)
--David Forbes, Tucson AZ
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