Comment by dboreham
3 hours ago
Having seen the replica, I noticed it has a long continuous tape loop. Was the program "stored" in the paper tape?
3 hours ago
Having seen the replica, I noticed it has a long continuous tape loop. Was the program "stored" in the paper tape?
That was the data. Point of Collosus was to analyze ciphertexts; the text goes on the loop. It’s looped so your program can run over the data multiple times, since it’s sequential access only.