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Colossus Computer
The Colossus machines were electronic computing devices used by British codebreakers to read encrypted German messages during World War II. These were the world's first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices. They used vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) to perform the calculations.
Construction of a fully-functional replica of a Colossus Mark II has been undertaken by a team led by Tony Sale. In spite of the blueprints and hardware being destroyed, a surprising amount of material survived, mainly in engineers' notebooks, but a considerable amount of it in the US.
The reconstruction is on display, in the historically correct place for Colossus No. 9, in H Block Bletchley Park Museum in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
Sadly Tony Sale passed away on 30th August 2011, but he leaves behind a lasting memory of the work carried out at Bletchley Park during the days of World War II.
Colossus Computer
The Colossus machines were electronic computing devices used by British codebreakers to read encrypted German messages during World War II. These were the world's first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices. They used vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) to perform the calculations.
Construction of a fully-functional replica of a Colossus Mark II has been undertaken by a team led by Tony Sale. In spite of the blueprints and hardware being destroyed, a surprising amount of material survived, mainly in engineers' notebooks, but a considerable amount of it in the US.
The reconstruction is on display, in the historically correct place for Colossus No. 9, in H Block Bletchley Park Museum in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
Sadly Tony Sale passed away on 30th August 2011, but he leaves behind a lasting memory of the work carried out at Bletchley Park during the days of World War II.