Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs...

On a sunny day (Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:21:52 +0100) it happened
liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) wrote in
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Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:13:15 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
 

On 15/09/2024 03:49, john larkin wrote:
 

The best thing about MK is that it's close to Oxford.

 
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.
 
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.

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The first time I vsited BP musem I was absolutely fascinated by the
equipment and the expertise of the volunteers who were restoring it.  A
few years later I visited again - where was everything?  The place had
become an overpriced, ovehyped, funfair with photographs of the
equipment but hardly any equipment and few, if any, knowledgeable
guides.
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Then I discovered the National Museum of Computing at the far end of the
car park.  That was where all the equipment and volunteers had gone when
they were kicked out by the coporate types who took over BP.  I arrived
just as they were about to close, but no matter; they switched the
equipment back on and gave me a personal mini-tour in the time
available.
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I have been back since and viewed it at leisure, with time to chat to
the volunteers.  Forget about visiting Bletchley Park, it's rubbish,  go
to the National Museum of Computing instead and have a fantastic and
informative experience with people who know what they are talking about.

As to code breaking and 'quantum', I posted this to sci.crypt few days ago:

As quantum computing threats loom, Microsoft updates its core crypto library
Two algorithms added so far, two more planned in the coming months.
  https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/microsoft-adds-quantum-resistant-algorithms-to-its-core-crypto-library/
quote:
  The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic functions in
  Windows and Linux.