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Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the Hollywood movie of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked the codes used to... [24 Jul 2008]
Celebrating 60 years of computing
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park turns back time For more on historic computing, see silicon.com's coverage of Bletchley Park... [20 Jun 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus code breaking machine which cracked the Nazi Enigma code and played a major part in ending the war in 1945. Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years [30 May 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News The plea coincides with an appeal from the UK's other computing museum at Bletchley Park, which houses a rebuilt version of the Colossus World War II codebreaking computer, for sponsorship and funding. [01 Apr 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. This shows paper tape - punched with enciphered messages - being read by Colossus at... [27 Mar 2008]
Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
News Leaving technology of the future for a moment, silicon.com took a trip down memory lane to witness computing's pivotal role in WWII espionage with an exclusive peek at Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaking machine. [27 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the World War II codebreakers and Colossus - the world's first electronic codebreaking machine - which smashed the codes used by the German Enigma machine. [20 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo This is the rebuilt Colossus Mk II computer at Bletchley Park's National Museum of Computing. Colossus took about six hours to work out the wheel start positions used by the Lorenz machine and this then enabled the Bletchley Park codebreakers to... [18 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: The pyramids versus Macclesfield
Comment There's probably an obvious few - Bletchley Park home of the WWII codebreakers and Colossus the world's first electronic computer, for example. A couple of new destinations to add to your holiday list: after you've visited the pyramids and the Taj... [23 Jan 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo One of the world's first digital computers creaked into life again this month as Bletchley Park's code-cracking Colossus began running for the first time in more than 60 years. In October, the team put the tech through its paces in the rather less... [29 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo Colossus was originally designed by a group at Bletchley Park which included engineer Tommy Flowers and mathematician Max Newman. The Colossus code-cracking computer is up and running for the first time in more than 60 years. [16 Nov 2007]
Why Messier is living on borrowed time
Comment Today at the AGM of his Vivendi Universal colossus he will be facing angry shareholders, protesting Canal Plus workers - upset he recently ditched their boss - and even anti-globalisation protesters. And it wasn't a big trip for him - he now... [24 Apr 2002]
