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Uploaded by on Sep 28, 2009

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327256.200

See a working reconstruction of the computer that broke German war code.

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  • Seeing as Crysis is roughly 7 billion bytes, and the tape is fed at 35mph (1 564.64 cm/s) then the tape for Crysis would have to be 4473.9 km long (2779.9 miles), meaning that at 35mph it would take 79.4 hours to load. So you could run it, but at 0.0000349728333 FPS.

  • The technology we leave behind is often as remarkable as the new technology. It is the evolution of method that makes the less effecient techniques fade and a new ones emerge. It is easy to take for granted that what we have now is superior, but in reality it is simply an accumulation of microchanges over the years. Even in education we filter out the obsolete steps that were the foundations of our current knowledge base. Projects like this put us in touch with remarkable technology of the past.

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  • That's very interesting, but.. can it play Crysis?

  • @2344553 You deserve a cookie.

  • @javierenchina No, the 'Heath Robinson' is next door.

  • why doesnt the narrarators voice go down at the end of sentences? it just drags on.

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    its just like the origionalllllllllllll....

  • @2344553

    well you are quite right but it still needs to be clocked to the screen so that would add another delay. Ofcourse colussus lacks the massive storage Crysis needs in-game so practically it is entirely impossible...you probaly knew that already but ooh never mind...

    i wonder how big crysis would be if they wrote it in pure assembly and with full optimization...I think way and way smaller. There are some under 8K games for windows out that are pretty good looking...

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  • He reminds me of the doctor from Half-life

  • Fantastic machine! not a silicon chip in sight, men with pencils & paper designed it and it reads 5,000 characters per second..... amazing!

  • lmfao!!

  • turns out that they are sending messages in german

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