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Colossus used telephone and teleprinter technology to decrypt messages
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Bletchley Park
To transmit messages in secret.
binary
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use it to write secret private messages.
The Expert answer is wrong, Enigma messages were cracked using electromechanical Bombe machines.The computer Colossus cracked the German "Fish" codesthat the German High Command used.
Its not Collossus, Its Colossus, One L.. Its a computer device used to decode messages in WW2..
The input for Colossus was a paper tape that went through a special optical reader at a speed of 5000 characters per second on a system of pulleys called "the bedstead". There were 8 punch positions per character on this paper tape: 5 holes for the encrypted Baudot character code, 1 character synchronization hole, 1 start hole, 1 stop hole.
To Store battle plans, send secret messages and a bunch of other things
The Colossus was built using thermionic valves, thyratrons, relays and stepping switches.The Colossus Mark 1 used about 1600 valves and the Colossus Mark 2 used about 2400 valves. After the Colossus Mark 2 was in production and use the single Colossus Mark 1 was briefly shutdown and upgraded to a Colossus Mark 2. Five of the ten Colossus machines also had a device called the "gadget" that aided in a process called "rectangling", the number of additional valves added to each of these enhanced Colossus Mark 2 machines is unknown.