tocs3 3 days 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.

  • eitland 2 days ago

    More 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]

  • dylan604 2 days ago

    they called them computers for a reason

  • hermitShell 2 days ago

    Technology has changed for sure. Is our usage of human capital any better as a whole? Probably not. So many BS jobs out there.

    • cguess 2 days ago

      tech has changed, but it's fundamentally doing the exact same job. GCHQ/NSA is still using the techniques pioneered at Bletchley.