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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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