Update: photo 4 added 2/5/12 below
#Followme is a photographic project by Travis Hodges. The idea is simple: chose a person on Twitter photograph them, then ask them to choose someone they follow on Twitter, photograph them, then ask them to choose…..you get the picture 😉
So, @kevan chose my friend @shrodingerskit and then she chose me :))
Travis asked me if I had any idea where I would like to be photographed and with what. I thought for a couple of minutes and decided that a pic in front of Colossus, the world’s first programmable digital computer which has been rebuilt at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park would be cool. Then I thought, hey, wouldn’t it be even cooler to stand in front of Colossus with a Raspberry Pi?
Travis liked the idea, thank goodness, so last week I met him at TNMOC and these photographs are the result. I like all of them but have a favourite, I’m not saying which 😉
Travis has a different favourite….so which one should he use?
1. Closeup?
2. Colossus front view?
3. Colossus back view?
4. A new view…added 2/5/12
What do you think?
Also, I’d love to know what the difference in size/computing power is Colossus vs Raspberry Pi, anyone know?
Dr Sue Black 
Has to be 1 or 3, 2 looks too much like a corporate photo shoot shot. Personal favourite is 1.- Neil.
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I’m probably wrong here but if I’ve got this right then according to the link below Colossus had 0.000224MIPS. From what I gather from it’s spec the ARM ARM1176JZF-S processor delivers 965 MIPS@772MHz. That should mean that it delivers over 4,308,035 times the processing capacity.
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Number 1 Sue 🙂
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My favourite pose is 1 but my favourite view of Colossus is 3. It’s too bad you hardly see the Raspberry Pi in 3. It would be ideal as both show the exposed circuitry.
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Closeup. Clearly. #2 looks like a stock photo (or a corporate shoot like Neil said), and #3 is way too busy IMO, the Raspberry Pi almost disappears.Which one did you pick?
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I agree with @karohemd — I think the best shot of you is #1, but most interesting shot of you and Colossus is #3. I’d personally go with 3. I also like in 3 that you’re just kind of holding the RaspberryPi board, rather than posing it. Which did you use?
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Thanks for the great comments 🙂 I agree, I think that 1 is the best shot of me, and it is nice to see the Pi close up, but number 3 is the best shot of Colossus. Which one will @NickHodgesUk choose? 🙂
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3, definitely 3, so much more subtle. It’s that ‘one computer to do everything’ kinda size, with the RPi casually held in the hand
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There is no exact way to measure it but you could write a benchmark for the rp that breaks a nazi code and measure which is faster 😛
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When Tony Sale was alive I talked briefly to him on this subject and it seems that a Pentium 1 could just about outstrip the Colossus in a similar task. However, Colossus was designed to perform a particular process very efficiently (akin to an ASIC chip today) within certain programmable parameters, however it would be lousy at adding up expenses or spell checking a document unlike modern CPU’s which are great in a generic way.The speed of processing isn’t always a function o fthe clock speed but a number of factors.
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