Youtube link, Warning! they force adverts.
Yeah, I know about the movie.. want to play a game?
Link to a long talk. Guess who made their own shift registers!
may be posting the actual link here skips the advertising ? (testing)
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I'm waiting for the grogs to weigh in! I am nothing like the oldest (class of 75) or deep compared to them.
seen that before but always good to listen to that again
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That's WOPR, not Colossus!
a7
Maybe I mixed that movie up with The Forbin Project?
There was one in the 70's where the name was Colossus and it was a B-movie.
And... that was when shift registers were invented using flip-flops as bits.
Shift registers worked in Colossus Mark 2 in 1944.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), I can still hear
This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.
"Shall we play a game?" is asked of Matthew Broderick's character in War Games. He insists they play "Global Thermonuclear War" instread of a good game of chess. Antics, as they say, ensue.
I'm put in mind of David Cassidy's last words: "So much wasted time." 
a7
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