On: Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing

[stcredzero]

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.

[chadgeidel → stcredzero]

Thanks for that.