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From wikipedia: some tasks performed include registering messages on little cards, which Webb believes totaled 10,000 a day in the whole park, and organizing t
by tocs3 2y ago
From wikipedia:
some tasks performed include registering messages on little cards, which Webb believes totaled 10,000 a day in the whole park, and organizing the cards into shoeboxes according to a strict order so they could be retrieved efficiently when called for.
I suppose times have changed.
- dylan604 2y agothey called them computers for a reason
- hermitShell 2y agoTechnology has changed for sure. Is our usage of human capital any better as a whole? Probably not. So many BS jobs out there.
- cguess 2y agotech has changed, but it's fundamentally doing the exact same job. GCHQ/NSA is still using the techniques pioneered at Bletchley.
- eitland 2y agoMore interestingly IMO: > In Block F, she worked on intercepted Japanese messages, something she excelled at so much that she was later sent to Washington to support the American war effort.[6]