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 ...

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 ...

Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...

The images from intelligence agency GCHQ shows Colossus in full working mode as it was used by spies at Bletchley Park and played a key role in ending the Second World War. They have been released to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wartime diary that helps to fill out the history of a pioneering computer called Colossus will soon go on display at Bletchley Park. The diary was written by Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers who ...

The first official information released about Colossus was a single page of information and a few pictures The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking ...