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Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Despite being one of the first people in the world to use an electronic computer - Colossus' ability to represent and process information using its array of vacuum tubes paved the way for the logical circuit architecture... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo Electromechanical machines such as Bombe and Colossus played a key role in cracking the codes, automating much of the laborious mathematics needed to decipher the messages. Colossus was the first machine... [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. Work began this week on restoring what will be... [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, the home of UK codebreaking during... [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. This hut once housed codebreakers who... [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. March kicked off with a photographic tour through Microsoft's... [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 site of British codebreaking efforts during World War II is... [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 exploring Bletchley Park, the former... [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 command. Here silicon.com visits the... [13 Nov 2008]
Codebreaking Bletchley given help to fill in the cracks
News Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played... [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. The MoD showed off the computer games it uses to... [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 The Liberal Democrats have been found to be in... [26 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.09.08
Round-Up That's home of the almighty Colossus, of course. No one does nostalgia like they did in the good old days, conventional wisdom says. But the Round-Up is here to prove that wrong. For the last week or so silicon.com has... [12 Sep 2008]
