--- categories: [] date: "2024-08-18 08:08:12" draft: false tags: [] title: Had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park yesterday ... type: notes photo: - url: /media/WxKAbJ8jLRAwF3iE1LmP3ISzYt5mIEyXgI3wiB2M_cc70c64a.jpg alt: A statue of Alan Turing fashioned from slate set against a black and white photo of an office in Bletchley park ---
Had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park yesterday to see where Alan Turing and many others did amazing work on early computers and cryptanalysis. As a computer scientist it has been on my bucket list for a really long time so I'm glad to have finally gotten around to it. The bombe machines were fascinating. Mechanical machines (not computers as they were not general purpose/programmable) that brute forced enigma code cyphers by trying different combinations of circuits. They could try 37k combinations in 12 minutes. #BletchleyPark #AlanTuring #computers