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<div dir="ltr">Brilliant! Thanks for this firsthand account. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">(Still a mystery why the British broadcast confusion then.)</div>
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<div dir="ltr">All the best</div>
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<span style="background-color:white">Dr. Joris J. van Zundert</span><br>
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<span style="background-color:white">Dept. of Computational Literary Studies / DHLab</span><br>
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<span style="background-color:white">Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences</span><br>
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<span style="background-color:white">Jack Sparrow: I thought you were supposed to keep to the code.</span><br>
<span style="background-color:white">Mr. Gibbs: We figured they were more actual guidelines.</span></span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 18, 2024 5:19:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joris van Zundert <joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sigcis <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Colossus at 80</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="">I was shown the photographs, and given permission to interview the developers, in mid-1975. A set of photographs, and a single-page description, were released to the Public Record Office in 1975. My (cleared) paper revealing
the Colossus was given at the splendid Los Alamos conference in June 1976 – see <a href="https://computerhistory.org/blog/computings-woodstock/" originalsrc="https://computerhistory.org/blog/computings-woodstock/" shash="W9DhNO+TbMvaa2U+TaLFEW/LyR4hH/2ZVIB1YsoHZAQ41I3CYt+mFih1HIGL8gEXVAgZ5DQPnW/rT/kpv+jXUy37MlydMxQpYA73Ot2VPKWbbk4wFp8FN6DG6jclyu8JBT/kmwK2a4Ye/ftsG58aRoaE7UmEZxERFXHuzEboaBM=">
https://computerhistory.org/blog/computings-woodstock/</a>. (I had previously, in 1972, published such few facts as I could discover about the project in my 1972 paper “On Alan Turing and the Origins of Computers” -
<a href="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/Papers-Books/126.pdf" originalsrc="http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/Papers-Books/126.pdf" shash="jAxyCvg50LjiHpWGbtsz97tc9YLxc9Fbm6FdzC6ZCm/vV7DcuzZGU5fF6tko1ear16jU4ZzRjJWAH8JEZZfrFoyHYFUE1UwPXQfdp4jBmoW5A0calQ8oNFZs3AYk1QpcviOicYam9yW+zuF3rhsVJXbclzhJ43r3BIGXG0RxB/U=">
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/Papers-Books/126.pdf</a>.)</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Helvetica; color:black">School of Computing, Newcastle University, 1 Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG</span></p>
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On 18/01/2024, 13:42, "Joris van Zundert" <joris.van.zundert@huygens.knaw.nl> wrote:</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Any ideas on this puzzling sentence in the press release? “The Colossus computer was created during the Second World War […] but its existence was only revealed in the early 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?</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">From: Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of Brian Randell via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 12:50</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Colossus at 80</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">Hi:</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><a href="https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80" originalsrc="https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80" shash="q9nvuraA+wJk5bADfJb8VjxWFvH9etXBT2R7/DQzZxCk0I7KENyFEvjp4NYeSaueuVydelVh6geYL5vVVkyb9ebWGcQjYZTwA/ECdFDqIWuw3RJzwnGtXm/nL0IgWRuZf+Ii67VpH0xHEf4rPcIaSME/gZh2u0AQZ34m1mn+RTk=">https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80</a>
<<a href="https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80%3e" originalsrc="https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80%3e" shash="IU8Gdtwtta17MJloCEYjiNSCnm2jTSdVrH7w5nHK0reRtn28OJL2HMq+8eRZh0wgAEbl7lvvUGXK4JeT1ffgTfOog7y7lFc5nJ6nz4e8GEwUwvu4MENaBHJ1m2WT5Tgaikb8C4fZ1AptsfpEZBljvJfMQ1bEvBm+52v3Pk1dBmM=">https://www.gchq.gov.uk/news/colossus-80></a></p>
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