There were several and most were destroyed
Colossus was a very large computer that used valves - a far cry from a modern desktop computer. It was used to help break the German's Enigma Code.
That was the name of the first programmable electronic computer, and it was used to break codes used by the Germans.
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Colossus was a code breaking computer designed by Tommy Flowers.
Colossus
Tommy Flowers developed Colossus in 1943. This computer was intended to aid British code breakers in World War II with analysis of the Lorenz cipher.
Bletchley Park, the site of world War II British code breaking and Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, is within the town boundaries of Milton Keynes.
Colossus was a very large computer that used valves - a far cry from a modern desktop computer. It was used to help break the German's Enigma Code.
Colossus was operational at Bletchley Park by February 1943
Since an Abacus is technically a computer, I can only assume you mean the third binary electronic computer. This was called "Colossus Mark 1" and was developed in the UK to read encrypted German messages during World War II.The Colossus machines were the first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices and went through several revisions so if you define a computer in this way, a Colossus machine would still have been the third computer device ever to be constructed.After World War Two all the blueprints and Colossus hardware were destroyed in the interests of National Security and it was not for many years that its designers would receive the credit they deserved for the world's first programmable electronic computer.
That was the name of the first programmable electronic computer, and it was used to break codes used by the Germans.
The Colossus Computer was constructed to help the code breakers at Bletchley Park, England, to break the German's Enigma codes during World War II. It was the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer.
Decrypted cyphers.
The Colossus was created to decode encrypted messages from Germany during World War Two using the infamous "Enigma" machine. For full rundown see Simon Singh's "The Code Book".
It would still have happened, but slower.