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Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo The Colossus code-cracking computer is up and running for the first time in more than 60 years. Colossus is widely recognised as one of the world's first digital computers. Pictured are the Wrens using a... [16 Nov 2007]
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... [27 Mar 2008]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing last week, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in Germany. [19 Nov 2007]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo See more photos from Colossus here… Computer expert and former spy, Tony Sale, demonstrates the mighty codebreaker Colossus - WWII's top secret weapon. Bletchley Park is now home to the new National... [18 Mar 2008]
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]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus codebreaking machine which cracked the Nazi Enigma code and played a major part in ending the war in 1945. Photos: Colossus gets cracking... [30 May 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: Nasa's top 10 on Earth
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ... [24 Apr 2008]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
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 decrypting... [24 Jul 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]
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 On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since... [20 Jun 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]
Photos: The building of a data centre
Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ... [11 Jun 2008]
Computing museum at risk of being thing of the past
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine 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... [01 Apr 2008]
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]
