8 Cyberpunk Machines That Changed Computing Forever
6. Alan Turing’s Bombe (1940)
With 10 miles of wiring, 108 rotating drums, and weighing 1 metric ton, Turing’s code-busting computer was a beast. More than 200 Bombes were built to decipher the German Enigma machine. They helped shorten the war and saved thousands, perhaps millions of lives.
A genius and a hero, often under-resourced and not always taken seriously, Turing never gave up. He even proposed building a Universal Machine that could compute just about anything!
If you’re looking to buy a Bombe, sorry, you’re out of luck. They were destroyed soon after the war and only a few dummy replicas exist.