Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing

Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by stcredzero on Friday August 05, 2011 @03:06PM (#2851284)

They deserve credit along with a number of other sites. (The Manhattan Project is one.)

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Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by canistr on Friday August 05, 2011 @03:14PM (#2851312)

Actually, the Queen visited Bletchley Park a couple of weeks ago and unveiled a tribute to the WWII Codebreakers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14164529

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Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by chadgeidel on Friday August 05, 2011 @06:00PM (#2851967)

I'm not trying to be snarky, but I did not know the Manhattan Project used (non-human) computers in any significant way. None of the documentaries/specials I've seen have mentioned any use.

Would you care to enlighten me?

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Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by stcredzero on Friday August 05, 2011 @06:13PM (#2852011)

They used IBM machines with punch cards to do (what were then) large numbers of automated computations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM#1939-1945:_World...

Feynman often used to rib Danny Hillis about Computer Science being a fluff field, since he'd already done all that stuff using primitive machines back in the 40's.

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Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by chadgeidel on Friday August 05, 2011 @08:09PM (#2852342)

Thanks for that.

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