Betty Webb had originally signed up with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), with her reasoning per a 2012 interview being that she and a couple of like-minded students felt that they ought to be ...
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 ...
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 ...
England's historic Bletchley Park needs a financial helping hand to save several buildings used by World War II code breakers. Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus ...
Exclusive - an insider's snapshot of Bletchley Park's secret war hero Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top codebreakers during World War II. The base is now home to the fledgling ...
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 ...
Journalist Price (The Pixar Touch) delivers a solid history of how Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park developed “the first operational digital computers” to defeat Germany’s vaunted Lorenz SZ ...
Back in 2016, we took you to a collection of slightly dilapidated prefabricated huts in the English Home Counties, and showed you a computer. The place was the National Museum of Computing, next to ...
This is a guest post by Chris Owen who works at Octopus Communications and is a passionate supporter of the Bletchley Park Trust. He can be found tweeting from <a ...
I spent a day last week at Bletchley Park, about an hour north of London. As I think is now well known, during the Second World War this was where a team of smart people, notably Alan Turing, broke ...
Silicon.com has posted a video and photos of the reconstruction of the world's first electronic code-breaking computer: Colossus. I spent a decade as a reporter and editor before joining the CNET News ...
The first museum in the UK dedicated entirely to the history of computing has been forced to put its exhibits into storage. Does this mean that the museum will itself become just a footnote in the ...