Colossus Commemorated By Postage Stamp

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Colossus Commemorated By Postage Stamp
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Written by Sue Gee   

The UK's Royal Mail has issued a First Class postage stamp which depicts 
the code-breaking Colossus computer.

It is part of Inventive Britain stamp issue which celebrates eight key 
inventions of the 20th century in disciplines and applications ranging 
from materials to medicine.

The stamp's design is based on the banks of thermionic valves that powered 
the machine's computational logic and the single paper tape crucial to its 
fast operation. It also has the wording :

COLOSSUS world's first electronic digital computer

Colossus was built at Bletchley Park, the center of code-breaking 
activities during World War II to speed up the decryption messages 
exchanged between Hitler and his generals that used the Lorentz cipher. 
This code was highly complex and messages could take weeks to decipher by 
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http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/8320-colossus-commemorated-by-postage-stamp.html

http://www.i-programmer.info/images/stories/News/2015/Feb/B/colossusrebuildstamp.jpg
http://www.i-programmer.info/images/stories/ComputerCreators/Colossus/Flowers.jpg
http://www.i-programmer.info/images/stories/News/2015/Feb/B/COLOSSUSORIG2.jpg

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/3557-commemorative-stamp-for-alan-turing.html

http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/first-class-colossus-stamp