[GreenKeys] WWII-Era "Computers"

tony j. podrasky hunybuny at eskimo.com
Fri Oct 12 10:32:44 EDT 2007


Craig Sawyers wrote:
>>COLOSSUS and many of
> 
> One Colossus Mk II has been rebuilt at Bletchley by Tony Sale over the last
> 13 years, and works every day for 8 hours, and breaks test encrypted
> messages in 6 hours - the same length of time it takes a Pentium PC to break
> the same message.

That's because the Pentium is running WINDOZE and spends all its
cpu cycles on Pop-up ads, announcing "you've got mail!", a version
of "minesweeper" that is core-locked, and connecting to Microsoft
looking for the latest patches and upgrades...

73,
W6ESE - tony
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