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80 years later, GCHQ releases new images of Nazi code-breaking computer (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Today several photos and documents were released of the earliest, and most secret, computers.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] atx_aquarian 11 points 5 months ago

I wondered how this related to Alan Turing's now-famous work cracking Enigma. TIL.

Alan Turing's use of probability in cryptanalysis (see Banburismus) contributed to its design. It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma. (Turing's machine that helped decode Enigma was the electromechanical Bombe, not Colossus.)

[–] wikibot 7 points 5 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Thomas Harold Flowers MBE (22 December 1905 - 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British General Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help decipher encrypted German messages.

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