Honouring ERNIE in virtual worlds

For the launch of the fifth ERNIE, the premium bond selector created by some of the Tommy Flowers' Colossus team, TNMOC volunteer Martin Gillow has created a Virtual ERNIE. Try it for yourself ...

Phil Hayes, Chief Colossus Rebuild Engineer at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, explains how the original ERNIE (Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment) used the same technology to produce random numbers as Colossus used to break the Lorenz machine cipher in the Second World War.