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E.R.N.I.E. – The 1957 British Lottery Random Number Generator

Hackaday has an interesting write-up today about the 1957 machine that was built to pick winning lottery numbers for the British National Savings and Investments “Premium Bonds” program. Short for Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment, it was built to provide truly random numbers for the lottery picks and included an all-important hardware entropy source. Random noise in the current output…