Re: Eye Spy #35 - Colossus

A somewhat light-hearted BBC TV programme last evening called "The story of 
1" had the Colossus re-build as its closing sequence. Colossus was described 
as the "world's first working binary computer". Fortunately there was no 
explicit mention of Enigma this time - just "the enemy codes".

Sadly no credits were in evidence to Tony or to the rebuild project as a 
whole.

John Pettifer.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hamer" <[email protected]>
To: <BLETCHLEYPARK-0lvw86wZMd/[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:41 PM
Subject: [BPARK] Eye Spy #35 - Colossus


> All...
>
> 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.
>
> Interestingly, while the one-page article is illustrated with pictures
> of BP, Enigma, etc. there is no actual picture of Colossus itself
> in the body of the article - though there is one in the sidebar. The
> piece makes no mention of the true driving force behind the rebuild
> project - Tony Sale.
>
> David
>
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