Tinker with a virtual Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/10/tinker-with-a-virtual-colossus-the-worlds-first-programmable-electronic-digital-computer.html

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[Melizmatic]

[FGD135]

[simonize]

“This is the voice of colossus. This is the voice of world control.”

[vcolossus]

Thanks for visiting my Virtual Colossus simulation and for the write up! Don’t worry, the war was won a long time ago so you can take as long as you like to crack some Lorenz SZ42 German codes.

If you’d prefer a different simulation, you can always try my Virtual Enigma (also in 3D and just in a web browser) - just search for Virtual Enigma in Google. I have a few different machines & computers you can play with from Bletchley Pare like the Lorenz SZ42 that Colossus was built to crack as well as the Turing-Welchman Bombe and you can learn more about all of them and find out how they worked. There’s even a fully working simulation of the ICT 1301 transistorized 1960s computer!

Martin - Virtual Colossus

[Mindysan33]

This is cool! Good work and thanks for sharing it with the world!