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by r4nd_f 1105 days ago
This sounds really cool! Do you know of any other similar projects?

It would be awesome to walk around the room in Bletchley Park, working on the Collosus (apparently the name of the computer Turing & Co. made during WWII [1]) in a simulator game. Now put it in VR? REALLY cool.

1: https://www.tnmoc.org/colossus

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An Analytical Engine in UE would be more fun. Here's one that runs in a browser, but without the graphics.[1] There are incomplete 3D models. Nobody seems to have made a full working 3D model, though.

Colossus wasn't a general-purpose computer. It was a key-tester, like a Bitcoin miner, running through a sequence of patterns and testing for a match.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/emulator.html