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The Computers. Colossus and Guardian were not production computers, although the credits say that Control Data Corporation (CDC) provided about $4.8 million worth of computer equipment.
The men and women who built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, gathered at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park on Wednesday for a re-enactment of ...
The fate of the world may not hang in the balance this time, but a team of engineers have resurrected Bletchley Park’s famous Colossus computer, the World War II code breaking machine widely ...
The Colossus, like many early computers, was huge when compared to its modern counterparts, and stood over two meters tall. It used around 2,500 thermionic valves, also known as vacuum tubes, to ...
The Colossus film is the second that Google produced about historical computers and those who created them. In November 2011, it published a film about the Leo, the world's first business computer ...
The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner of modern-day computers is ...
British intelligence has released new photos showing the World War II era "Colossus" computer. It marked the 80th anniversary of the code-breaking computer's invention. The device's existence was ...
Colossus was not one computer but a series of computers developed by British scientists between 1943 and 1945. These 2-meter-tall electronic beasts played an instrumental role in breaking the ...
Dubbed the Colossus, the vacuum tube-based computer was built using all that remained — photographs and fragments of some circuit board schematics — after the original 10 machines were ...
Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...
Colossus even begins to dictate Forbin’s schedule, right down to his breakfast menu. The movie loses some momentum when it becomes the computerized Odd Couple, and Forbin’s trick for securing ...