DocumentCode
3557787
Title
The Design of Colossus (foreword by Howard Campaigne)
Author
Flowers, Thomas H.
Volume
5
Issue
3
fYear
1983
Firstpage
239
Lastpage
252
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Annals of the History of Computing
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0164-1239
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MAHC.1983.10079
Filename
4640709
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