Description: In World War 2, the Germans used a scrambling system called Enigma. This machine simulates a number of Enigma machines to do a brute force attack on the 456,976 solutions of a single order of the four Enigma encoding wheels. This attack took about 20 minutes. Other machines were tasked with the other wheel orders.
Description: Babbage with the help of Ada, Countess of Lovelace built an early analog computer. For any computer history buff it is a key milestone in the evolution of computers. Ada, called by some the first computer programmer, recently had a programming language named after her. The term "Big Iron" comes from big computers as opposed to small computers.
Description: Babbage with the help of Ada, Countess of Lovelace built an early analog computer. For any computer history buff it is a key milestone in the evolution of computers. Ada, called by some the first computer programmer, recently had a programming language named after her. The term "Big Iron" comes from big computers as opposed to small computers.
Description: This device dates back to 150 - 100 BC. It was found in a wreck near the island of Antikythera. It was used to track planets, the calendar and four yearly athletic games. Considered by many to be the first analogue computer. There is some suggestion that it was invented and built by Aristotle.
