{"id":13493,"date":"2012-02-10T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2019-07-18T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T13:45:50","slug":"help-sponsor-a-new-home-for-the-historic-colossus-code-cracking-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/help-sponsor-a-new-home-for-the-historic-colossus-code-cracking-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Help sponsor a new home for the historic Colossus code-cracking computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/02\/10\/bletchley_park_colossus\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Leyden<\/a> at <em>The Register<\/em> on the fundraising efforts to build a new home for the WW2 cryptographic computer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has turned to a tried-and-tested fundraising method to establish a home for the rebuilt Colossus computer at Bletchley Park.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals and firms are invited to buy up pixels of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colossusonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">an online picture of the wartime code-breaking machine<\/a> &mdash; at 10 pence per dot with a minimum spend of \u00a310 &mdash; pretty much like Alex Tew&#8217;s million-dollar homepage effort.<\/p>\n<p>The museum&#8217;s curators need the cash to open an exhibition featuring the Colossus in the historic Block H, on the spot where Colossus No 9 stood during the Second World War and where the rebuild took place.<\/p>\n<p>Colossus was the world&#8217;s first electronic programmable computer, and was used to crack encrypted messages between Hitler and his generals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Leyden at The Register on the fundraising efforts to build a new home for the WW2 cryptographic computer: The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has turned to a tried-and-tested fundraising method to establish a home for the rebuilt Colossus computer at Bletchley Park. Individuals and firms are invited to buy up pixels of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,15,230],"tags":[109,157,1298],"class_list":["post-13493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-technology","category-ww2","tag-computers","tag-encryption","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3vD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13494,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions\/13494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}