<div dir="ltr">Thanks everyone, for the replies both public and private. I had no idea that the Royal Mail had discovered the Internet. :-) </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Roger Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgj@dcs.bbk.ac.uk" target="_blank">rgj@dcs.bbk.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ian S. King<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 01 February 2015 18:08<br>
<b>To:</b> Brian Randell<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Royal Mail Postage Stamp commemorating Colossus<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">That is exciting! Brian, here in the US such commemorative postage stamps are usually available in a 'proof' form. Do you know how those of us on the other side of the pond might acquire such, if they are printed? <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Royal Mail has at last revealed details of their plans for a commemorative postage stamp featuring Colossus. I have known of this plan for some time as I was commissioned (in confidence) last year to write a section on Tommy Flowers
for the chapter in the next Royal Mail Year Book about the new stamp series. (A rather brief press release by Royal Mail itself indicates that "<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:whitesmoke">each of the eight special stamps depict key inventions
created by British inventors over the last century: Colossus, World Wide Web, Catseyes, Fibre Optics, Stainless Steel, Carbon Fibre, DNA Sequencing, i-limb" - see </span><a href="http://www.royalmail.com/personal/stamps-collectibles-gifts/look-forward-into-2015" target="_blank">http://www.royalmail.com/personal/stamps-collectibles-gifts/look-forward-into-2015</a>.)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The attached picture and text in fact comes from a scanned copy of the February 2015 British Philatelic Bulletin, rather than directly from the Royal Mail., which I received today. I had not seen the design of the stamp before, so only
now - to my annoyance - do I find that it describes Colossus as “the first electronic digital computer” - my own text takes care to use the phrase “the first programmable electronic digital computer”.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However I am nevertheless delighted that Colossus is being commemorated by the Royal Mail, and by the growing public recognition especially here in the UK of Tommy Flowers’ great contribution.<u></u><u></u></p>
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