Re: Eye Spy #35 - Colossus
Matt R <[email protected]>
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--- David Hamer <[email protected]> wrote: > Here we go again! The current issue of Eye Spy magazine [#35] has > a short piece on the Colossus rebuild at BP: "...Colossus...which > was used to break the top secret German Enigma codes...": the author > managing to fit two errors into that one sentence..! It is not clear > who wrote this. That's unfortunate, particularly since Eye Spy recently did a nice article on John Alexander's cipher machine collection (exhibited at BP). Compare MSN Encarta's (an encyclopedia) entry on the history of the computer: "During World War II a team of scientists and mathematicians, working at Bletchley Park, north of London, created one of the first all-electronic digital computers: Colossus. By December 1943, Colossus, which incorporated 1,500 vacuum tubes, was operational. It was used by the team headed by Alan Turing, in the largely successful attempt to crack German radio messages enciphered in the Enigma code." -- http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563087_2/Computer.html -- Matt Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com