Colossus
The first electronic computer, built by the British from fifteen hundred radio tubes during World War II. Colossus and nine similar machines running in parallel cracked increasingly complex German codes on military intelligence and contributed to the Allied forces" winning of World War II. Alan Turing worked on this project.
Articles on KurzweilAI.net that refer to Colossus
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