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What was the purpose of the holes in the paper tape used by colossus?
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What was the purpose of those holes colossus?
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How did the Colossus work without any software?
Colossus worked by holes punched in a paper tape. It was programmed by switches and plugs. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations.
How did people tell the computer colossus what to do?
Colossus was programmed by instructions punched on a roll of paper tape.
After rewiring Colossus during World War II what was used to provide Colossus with the secret message that it was intended to decode?
The input for Colossus was a paper tape that went through a special optical reader at a speed of 5000 characters per second on a system of pulleys called "the bedstead". There were 8 punch positions per character on this paper tape: 5 holes for the encrypted Baudot character code, 1 character synchronization hole, 1 start hole, 1 stop hole.
How did the colossus work without software?
Colossus worked by holes punched in a paper tape. It was programmed by switches and plugs. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations.
How were 1940s computers programmed?
There were two programming methods in general use, a specific computer would use only one of them:Patch cable and switchesSimilar to an old telephone operator board, you had a panel with lots of holes and cables you could use to connect the holes. The pattern of connections defined the program.Punched paper tapeYou could punch holes in a paper tape to represent the program, and feed it to the computer. The computer had a paper tape reader, and wrote the result to a printer.By the late 1940s computers could even store the program internally, so you didn't have to run the paper tape through it for every calculation.See related links for more.
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