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.
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".
The Colossus was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and was located in Rhodes, in Greece.
Life was good when colossus was being built but slaves built it
The Colossus computer worked using one to two thousand thermionic valves.
The actual computers called Colossus were World War II code-breaking computers built in 1943 and 1944 in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England. These were the first true programmable computers, and about a dozen were built.The prototype, Colossus Mark I, was shown working in December 1943 and was operational at Bletchley Park by February 1944. An improved Colossus Mark II was first installed in June 1944, and ten more had been constructed by the end of the war. Unfortunately, the secret nature of these computers meant that their innovations were not available for commercial computer development for many years.*The other computer called Colossus is a fictional artificial intelligence from a 1965 novel (Colossus) by Dennis Feltham Jones, which was the basis for the film Colossus, the Forbin Project in 1970
Black Colossus was created in 1933.
The Fall of Colossus was created in 1974.
Colossus - collection - was created in 1989.
Black Colossus was created in 1933.
The Rhodes Colossus was created in 1892.
Dub Colossus was created in 2008.
The Colossus of Detroit was created in 1978.
The Colossus of Maroussi was created in 1941.
Colossus Chess was created in 1986.
Building the Colossus was created in 1994.
The New Colossus was created in 1883.
The Colossus of Rhodes - film - was created in 1961.