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If this happens -- and I'm not for a minute sayin' it should -- then I fear the inevitable paparazzi shots of middle-aged kilted men exiting Alpines over the parking brake lever. Oh, the humanity...
Ouch!
Kind of reminds me of a story...
Back in high school I dated a gal whose father owned a RHD 1952 Bentley R-Type. The guy was brilliant - he was a computer engineer on Eniac back in the day - but he was horribly prone to flashes of "absent minded professor" syndrome.
This was the sign at last years SOS in Columbia. We may have a pattern! I will have my kilt! Who will man-up with me? How far do we "dress" for this?
Kevin,
Remember his name? My mother was a secretary for Eniac at the University of Pennsylvania and Princton. She's mentioned in the book "Turing's Cathedral".
Kevin,
Remember his name? My mother was a secretary for Eniac at the University of Pennsylvania and Princton. She's mentioned in the book "Turing's Cathedral".
The topic doesn't matter, Scots have the biggest package.http://www.sunbeamalpine.org/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
Edit to add:
Ok, I dragged the smiley over to the text and what you see is what I got. What did i do wrong?
Scots have the biggest package.[img]http://www.sunbeamalpine.org/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/img ]
Alan Turing was at Bletchley Park and (I seem to recall) headed up the team that cracked Enigma.
Far be it from me to argue with our resident Brit Historian, but the primary need to break Enigma was to predict the locales of U-Boats in the Atlantic. Nick-Back to you for correction...
The Colossus was a purpose built computer as stated in Wiki.
"The ten British Colossus computers (used for cryptanalysis starting in 1943) were designed by Tommy Flowers. The Colossus computers were digital, electronic, and were programmed by plugboard and switches, but they were dedicated to code breaking and not general purpose.[28]"
"Colossus was the first of the electronic digital machines with programmability, albeit limited by modern standards:[9]
it had no internally stored programs. To set it up for a new task, the operator had to set up plugs and switches to alter the wiring.
Colossus was not a general-purpose machine, being designed for a specific cryptanalytic task involving counting and Boolean operations."
Whereas the the Eniac was the first Programable General Purpose Digital Computer. From Wili
"ENIAC ( /ˈɛni.æk/; Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)[1][2] was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.[3]"
In any event, you seem to have missed this bit in my previous post:
" ... Colossus, built the year before ENIAC by the General Post Office in England, and used mainly to decypher a German code much more advanced than Enigma." The code, whose name escapes me, was a quantum leap over Enigma, and was said to have one hundred million, million numerical combinations. Solving this by humans would have taken until long after the war ended.
True, but if you will forgive me for saying so, irrelevant. I was specific (italics added):
"It is, unfortunately, a "known fact" in the US that ENIAC, built at the U. of Pa., was the world's first electronic, programmable computer. .... it just ain't so.
The first such computer was Colossus, built the year before ENIAC by the General Post Office in England ..."