<signature id="signaturefinder_x-mail-compose1705697199551"><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2">Dear Brian:</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2">Thank you so much. A very exciting message. </font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2">Please see:</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/279408-the-colossus/fulltext"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2">The Colossus | blog@CACM
| Communications of the ACM</font></span></a></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2">Best wishes,</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="2">Herbert</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></signature><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left:15px;">----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----<br>Von : members@lists.sigcis.org<br>Datum : 18/01/2024 - 11:23 (MN)<br>An : members@sigcis.org<br>Betreff : [SIGCIS-Members] BBC: Unseen images of code breaking computer that helped win WW2<br><br><style>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">From the BBC:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“</span><span style="mso-ligatures: none;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">By Shiona McCallum
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b><span style="mso-ligatures: none;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">GCHQ has released never before seen images of Colossus, the UK's secret code-breaking computer credited with helping the Allies win World War Two.</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures: none;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-ligatures: none;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The intelligence agency is publishing them to mark the 80th anniversary of the device's invention.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-ligatures: none;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It says they "shed new light" on the "genesis and workings of Colossus", which is considered by many to be the first digital computer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Full text and photos:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67997406">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67997406</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">These photos are fascinating, particularly the one showing a separate large set of plugboards. My assumption is that the Colossus shown is one of the later production model.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Cheers
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Brian Randell
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