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From wikipedia:

some tasks performed include registering messages on little cards, which Webb believes totaled 10,000 a day in the whole park, and organizing the cards into shoeboxes according to a strict order so they could be retrieved efficiently when called for.

I suppose times have changed.

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eitland 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

More interestingly IMO:

> In Block F, she worked on intercepted Japanese messages, something she excelled at so much that she was later sent to Washington to support the American war effort.[6]

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dylan604 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

they called them computers for a reason

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hermitShell 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Technology has changed for sure. Is our usage of human capital any better as a whole? Probably not. So many BS jobs out there.

	▲	cguess 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		tech has changed, but it's fundamentally doing the exact same job. GCHQ/NSA is still using the techniques pioneered at Bletchley.