That photograph looks like a late 1950's style computer room. Alan Turings computer at Bletchley Park, England was massive and because of it's size was called Colossus. Designed by a General Post Office research engineer, a Mr.Tommy Flowers. It was the worlds first electronic programmable computer. (Eat your heart out IBM) Back then (it was operational in 1941)there were no Silicon Chips, micro-processors etc. Heck, even transistors were a distant dream. Each computer contained several miles of wiring and more than 1000 valves which were the only form of switches in use in early 1940's. These computers (I believe there were ten in all) each filled a whole room. They were used to decipher the German and Japanese Military and Diplomatic codes in conjunction with a captured German 'Enigma' (Lorenze) code machines.
Harry
Last edited by Harry Eales; 09/22/11 02:24 AM.
