• DocumentCode
    1143841
  • Title

    The rebuilding of Colossus at Bletchley Park

  • Author

    Sale, Anthony E.

  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • Firstpage
    61
  • Lastpage
    69
  • Abstract
    Rebuilding the Colossus Mk2 computer used in code breaking during World War II has been particularly difficult and challenging - almost nothing remained of the original machines. The original drawings and nearly all the circuit diagrams had been destroyed. Then, too, what Colossus actually did was kept secret until recently. These difficulties have been gradually resolved, however. The result? A working example of early electronic computer designs at its innovative best.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; computers; history; Bletchley Park; Colossus Mk2 computer; circuit diagrams; code breaking; electronic computer design; history; Circuits; Electron tubes; Engineering drawings; Marketing and sales; Military computing; Permission; Security; Switches; Thyratrons; Timing; Allen Coombs; Arnold Lynch; Bletchley Park; Colossus; Heath Robinson; Lorenz SZ42; Post Office Research Labs; Super Robinson; The Duke of Kent; Tommy Flowers; WRNS; code-breaking; delta; electric typewriter; paper tape; thyratrons; vacuum tubes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2005.47
  • Filename
    1498719