Perry
This is not new 'news'. I am fortunate enough to live 20 miles from Bletchley (my old maths Prof. worked there on Japanese codes during the war).
The trust that now leases the premises has put together an amazing exhibition and is quite open about what was at the Park during the war.
They have even rebuilt (Thanks to the sterling efforts of Tony Sale et al.) a colossus and hope to rebuild a bombe in the next couple of years. As a matter of interest, the colossus can solve the problem set it twice as fast as a Pentium PC using a C program to do exactly the same task.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perry E. Metzger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 01 October 2000 17:10
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bletchley Park had ten Colossi in 1944
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> The British government is going to release a report on the "Colossus"
> machines built at Bletchley Park, after 55 years of silence. It turns
> out that they had ten of the things, and they were used to break
> German codes used for communication between Berlin and military
> commands. Really interesting stuff -- I hope the final report gets put
> online when it becomes available because it is going to be neat
> reading.
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003549412141223&rtmo=VP4uZ
5Zx&atmo=tttttttd&pg=/et/00/9/7/ecfcol07.html
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