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Episode 101: Year 2000 Problem

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The History of the Colossus

The first thing ENIAC was used for was to work on the atomic bomb project. It could be programmed to do anything, right? Essentially anything. If you can't program it through punch cards, you program it through switching cables around. And like the Colossus, like the bomb that they use at Blatchly Park,. this is plug board input you see in the background like a synthesizer.

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