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Had the pleasure of visiting Bletchley Park yesterday ... notes
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/media/WxKAbJ8jLRAwF3iE1LmP3ISzYt5mIEyXgI3wiB2M_cc70c64a.jpg 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