Turing, the Enigma, the WWII code breaking efforts… these are all important parts of our geek heritage. So we were unable to resist a visit to Bletchley Park on a day when they’d invited back veterans who had worked the machinery there, and the team who had re-built and were demonstrating a working version of the Bombe: Photos are up with a bit more of an explanation.
There’s also some video, showing the Bombe working, the Colossus, and an un-watchable bit of geeking around an SGI’s file system:
BP from Richard Dallaway on Vimeo.