Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs...

On 15/09/2024 10:58, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:13:15 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
 

On 15/09/2024 03:49, john larkin wrote:
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The best thing about MK is that it's close to Oxford.

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I really must disagree. The best thing about MK is Bletchley Park. It's
more than possible that none of us would be here if it wasn't for the
activities at Station X in the early 40s.
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It's perhaps interesting to surmise that if what went on at Bletchley
Park hadn't been kept secret until the mid 70s, perhaps the new town
envisioned in the 60s would have been called "Bletchley" in honour and
recognition of what it had done to hasten the end of World War II.

 They've made a museum out of it and it's *very* well worth a visit.

I visited at the end of November 2009, when it had just opened and the huts were still in a pretty rough state. It was a good time to go as it was a very cold day and there were few visitors. I was lucky on two counts. Firstly, we were shown round by Jean Valentine (who worked there during the war and had appeared on numerous "Station X" documentaries. She was one of those who entered the various settings onto the Bombe machine, and then phoned the possible decryption code to the hut where Turing worked. It was more-or-less next door, but she had no idea where it was, not even if it was at Bletchley Park!). Secondly, I was able to chat to Tony Sale for a while, as there was nobody else around. He, of course, was the driving force behind rebuilding Colossus. He had spoken with Tommy Flowers, who designed and built the original, and helped Sale with the rebuild as almost all the original documentation had been destroyed on Churchill's orders
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Jeff