{"id":786,"date":"2019-05-08T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/?p=786"},"modified":"2019-05-08T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:48:44","slug":"the-national-museum-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/2019\/05\/08\/the-national-museum-of-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Museum of Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I started off my day by visiting the National Museum of Computing, located in Bletchley Park. We got to see old working computer systems, including\u00a0a rebuilt computer called Colossus Mark 2.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-788 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-2-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-2.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers during the second World War to help in the cryptoanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, which I discussed in my last Blog.<\/p>\n<p>I got to see the giant disk of an old hard drive that could store 4 Megabytes on each side. Also in the museum were replicas of the &#8222;Bombe&#8220; (also discussed in my last blog). All in all I had a great time seeing the exhibition of old computer artifacts and would recommend a visit for anyone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-789\" src=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/files\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-05-08-at-4.41.39-PM.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 85vw, 267px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I started off my day by visiting the National Museum of Computing, located in Bletchley Park. We got to see old working computer systems, including\u00a0a rebuilt computer called Colossus Mark 2. Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers during the second World War to help in the cryptoanalysis of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/2019\/05\/08\/the-national-museum-of-computing\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eThe National Museum of Computing\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[298883,3812,907],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-bletchley-park","tag-computer","tag-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinuk2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}