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ColossusHi All, Did you see that they have rebuilt Colossus the code breaker. Took 14 years. I am surprised at the speed they say it operates at. My interest is not so much with the code breaking but more with machine itself. I understand they are to test it with a coded message from Germany. It is said to be the first computer but the Germans quote the Z3 as being the first.I got into computers in 1959 when I attended a programming course in London before I had even seen a computer. I trained to program a National Elliott 405 computer which was a valve machine and its speed was measured in Nano seconds. It's working store was 512 words of 32 binary bits. I spent 25 years in computers and feel fortunate to have seen the incredible development. One of the instances that I remember well was the first transmission of data we did from a factory in North Wales to our centre in Coventry. When we achieved it, we jumped up and down with excitment. I am amazed at what has been achieved over the years. How colossus operated at the speed they say it did, amazes me. Keith K. |
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