The Making of Colossus

1983/07/01 by Allen W.M. Coombs · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Digital and Traditional Archives Management #History of Computing Technologies

paper · doi:10.1109/mahc.1983.10085

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Abstract

The article describes the techniques that evolved for the design and manufacture of the Colossus machines and their auxiliaries, invented for the purpose of code breaking during World War II and installed at Bletchley Park.

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