S & T - Bletchley Park - June 2014
A front view of a bombe. These machines were used to break the codes of encrypted German communications. There is some notes about these machines in the write-up.
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The back of a bombe showing how the electo-mechanical components were built up on "gates" which could be opened for easy maintenance. Many commercial computers in the 60s and 70s still adopted this technique before the era of electronic miniturisation began to take over.
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