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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]
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]
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]
Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Video The base is now home to the fledgling National Museum of Computing, which features a rebuild of the world's first electronic codebreaking computer - Colossus. In the first of this exclusive video series, silicon.com takes you behind the scenes at... [19 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo At the end of the war destruction of most of the Colossus machines was ordered because of the secrecy around the machines, while the blueprints were burnt in a furnace - although contrary to popular belief it was not Winston Churchill who ordered... [18 Mar 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. It was used to crack Nazi codes in the World War II and was one of the... [29 Nov 2007]
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: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo Colossus is widely recognised as one of the world's first digital computers. Pictured are the Wrens using a Colossus Mark II computer in the 1940s. An improved Colossus Mark II was first installed in June 1944 and was working in time for commander... [16 Nov 2007]
Ernie: The fastest premium bonds machine in the north-west relaunched
News Ernie 1 was built by the team behind the World War II code-breaking Colossus machine. Ernie - the venerable computer in charge of randomly picking premium bonds winners - has been overhauled. National Savings and Investments (NS&I), which runs the... [17 Aug 2004]
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