• DocumentCode
    3557788
  • Title

    The Making of Colossus

  • Author

    Coombs, Allen W.M.

  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1983
  • Firstpage
    253
  • Lastpage
    259
  • 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.
  • Keywords
    Computers; Cryptography; Hardware; History; Information processing; Manufacturing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0164-1239
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.1983.10085
  • Filename
    4640710