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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Any ideas on this puzzling sentence in the press release? The Colossus computer was created during the Second World War [
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2000s after six decades of secrecy. As far as I know the existence of Colossus has in no way been a mystery at least since the early 1970s, right?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> on behalf of Brian Randell via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 12:50<br>
<b>To: </b>Sigcis <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] Colossus at 80<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Hi:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Here is the official GCHQ press release:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80">https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Cheers</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">Brian Randell</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 208 7923</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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