Title :
The Design of Colossus (foreword by Howard Campaigne)
Author :
Flowers, Thomas H.
Abstract :
This article describes the construction and operation of the Colossus machines. The machines had most if not all of the essential features of a modern computer, except that variable programming was provided not by memory store but by hard-wired function units selected and interconnected by switches operated by the mathematician-programmers.
Keywords :
Decoding; Functional programming; Hardware; Information processing; Mathematical programming; Switches; Telecommunication computing; Teleprinting;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.1983.10079
