The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner of modern-day computers is also ...

The rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park (all images courtesy Matt Parker) “For preservation sake, often the objects of our past become confined to clear ...

Colossus is widely recognised as being one of the first recognisably modern digital computers and was developed to read messages sent by the German commanders during the closing years of WWII. It was ...

It was the world's first programmable computer, invented by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park in World War II to speed up the code decryption process. But after the war, eight of the 10 Colossus ...

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the development of Colossus — arguably the first programmable computer ever made — the U.K. intelligence and security organization known as the Government ...

An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking ...

Set up in partnership with the Bletchley Park Trust the museum aims to become a showcase that will let visitors stroll through the history of early computers. "I cannot think of a better place than ...

The rebuilt Colossus will be surrounded by a new gallery telling the story of its development It was the world's first programmable computer, invented by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park in World ...