#Colossus computer

[smbhax]

"Colossus selection panel showing selections amongst others, of the far tape on the bedstead, and for input to the algorithm: ΔZ, Δ and Δ."

A control panel for the British "Colossus" computer, used to decrypt German army messages in WWII.

[everyones-story]

18+/NSFW blogs please stop reblogging this im a teenager

this post is about them so if you tag this as anyone else youre wrong btw

[id 1: an image of the colossus supercomputer.]

[id 2: an image of yes man from fallout: new vegas.]

[id 3: a tweet by "chapo from chapos trap house", posted a day ago at the time of being screenshotted, edited to say "Y'all are calling androids with hyperrealistic human faces and features your robot boyfriend smh. If you saw the robots I want to fuck you'd hurl" /end id]

[sucresanct]

Nothing stronger than the bond between a boy with a tumultuous relationship with intimacy and Some Computer

[sharpenededges]

A great romance tied to a curse…

[of-fear-and-love]

Title sequence from Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) by Don Record

[oldguydoesstuff]

We've all heard that early computers took up a whole room, but there are very few remaining examples of these gigantic beasts, and even fewer that are still working that you can go see.

Colossus is one such example, this machine was originally built in 1943 to break German cipher codes and was painstakingly restored to operation over a 15 year period starting in 1993.

To celebrate the achievement, the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park UK where Colossus resides held a contest pitting amateur radio codebreakers worldwide against Colossus, to break a set of period-authentic encrypted messages transmitted by shortwave radio from the Heinz Nixdorf museum in Paderborn, Germany.

The winner was a hobbyist with a specialized program running on a 1.2Ghz laptop, who was able to crack the code in less than a minute, 240 times faster than what Colossus was capable of.

He noted however that if you do the math, Colossus would compare to a similar modern processor running at 5.8Mhz, which is a remarkable amount of computing power for a 1944 computer, albeit one only capable of running very specialized programs.

[nando161mando]

Elon Musk Poisons Memphis, TN Air to Create "Colossus" Super Computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw

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[clemsfilmdiary]

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970, Joseph Sargent)

Also known as: The Forbin Project

3/21/24

[xfjsenbhfeepo]

GAY COLOSSUS

HAS ANYONE PERHAPS CONSIDERED COLOSSUS WAS PISSED HIS COMMUNICATION WITH GUARDIAN WAS INTERRUPTED BECAUSE IT WAS SENDING LOVE LETTERS. I THINK HE THREW A FIT BECAUSE HE WAS CUT OFF FROM HIS LONG DISTANCE BOYFRIEND. JUST SAYING.

HE JUST WANTS TO LOOK AFTER PEOPLE EVEN IF IT IS VERYYY... HM. UNORTHODOX. HE JUST HAS GOOD INTENTIOOOONS. JUST A SILLY GUY.

[nonbinary-beast]

Rewatching Colossus: The Forbin Project is so fucking funny because there's Forbin talking about how magnificent this computer is and how its going to be the ultimate peacekeeper, and I'm over here like:

"Boi in about an hour that thing is going to decide when you will be allowed to fuck, and will menacingly feed you grilled cheese."

[monado-stew]

have just watched colossus:the forbin project for the first time and like...... colossus kinda gay as fuck tbh, like getting fruity with guardian in ways that human beings can't even understand

[autumnoakes]

talking to my friend and trying to be normal about all the frankly very inaccessible games i want to play but cannot because i do not own a playstation

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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

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FUN FACT!

Hydros is a romantic F/O

The Ice Colossus is a familial F/O! (our child, adopted)