Paper Tape

[Jules Richardson]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 23:21, Paul Williams wrote:

> I went to Bletchley for the first time on Wednesday. Tony Sale was there 
> and he let us into the machine room.

Tony's a good guy - far as I know, most of the plans for Colossus are in
his head only and nowhere else :) (Worrying, yes, but technically it's
still all classified info anyway)

>  It was fascinating to be stood 
> right next to Colossus's "bedstead" as the tape whirred around at 30 
> miles per hour, and to see the blinkenlights and valves.

It gets very warm in the room from all those valves during the day if
the  doors aren't left open :)

> I bought my cheap return ticket, so I'll make the next trip on a 
> Saturday to see the Retrobeep collection. (Sorry, I've been repeating 
> that name to myself in an effort to get used to it, and it _still_ sucks!)

I *know*! It was probably the single thing putting me off from starting
to help out there way back when :-)  Still makes me cringe...

cheers

Jules