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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News A rebuilt Colossus machine on display at Bletchley Park Today the youngest veterans from Bletchley Park are in their 80s but they can still recall the... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo The Colossus is one of the first ever programmable computers and can be seen up and running at Bletchley Park after a major restoration programme. Electromechanical machines such as... [07 Sep 2009]
Photos: Restoring one of the world's oldest computers
Photo The restoration work is expected to take a year, when Witch will then go on display at TNMOC, which already holds the world's first electronic computer - the Colossus Mk II. Volunteers at The National Museum of Computing... [04 Sep 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News The wartime unit conducted pioneering codebreaking computing work performed on machines such as Colossus. A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park,... [24 Jul 2009]
Badge of honour for WWII Bletchley codebreakers
News I'm told the maths was so advanced the government was very reluctant until extremely recently to say anything, particularly the work around Colossus. Colossus is widely held to be the first true... [14 Jul 2009]
Photos: Bletchley needs £2m to save codebreakers' huts
Photo The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley houses a collection of computers, which includes the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break high-level German codes during the war. But today hut six, seen... [11 May 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo A concert of electronic music took place in March using machines ranging from the World War II-era Colossus Mark II, to the 1980s favourite: the BBC Micro. In the concert, musician Matthew Applegate (shown here) - aka... [07 Apr 2009]
WWII codebreakers' home gets £600,000 boost
News The National Museum of Computing houses a collection of computers which includes the rebuilt Colossus, used to break high-level German codes during the war. The two bodies announced on Thursday that... [12 Mar 2009]
Photos: Making beautiful music with the earliest computers
Photo The codebreaking computer used in World War II, the Colossus Mark II, and vintage machines ranging from the 1960s' Elliott 803 through to the 1980s' BBC Micro - will sing again as part of the Obsolete project, which is... [10 Mar 2009]
2008 in film: From Gates' departure to T5 opening its gates
News Bletchley Park Colossus In September, silicon.com took a look at the world's first electronic codebreaking computer, Colossus, as part of a series of exclusive videos... [12 Dec 2008]
Photos: The greatest tech sites from around the globe
Photo World War II codebreaking centre Bletchley Park was home to the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked codes used to encipher messages between Hitler's high... [13 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine - depicted in the Hollywood film of the same name - and also for the world's first... [06 Nov 2008]
ID cards, driverless buses and virtual shipwrecks
Photo See what else silicon.com saw at the National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park, home of World War II code-breakers and the Colossus code-cracking supercomputer. More classic... [02 Oct 2008]
Lib Dems banned from automated calling
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley... [26 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up That's home of the almighty Colossus, of course. For the last week or so silicon.com has been busy publishing the results of its rummage through the National Museum of Computing, out at the home of computing itself,... [12 Sep 2008]
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