The Colossus computers were made for the decoders in Bletchly Park to decode the Nazi messages in WWII. The Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze statue that served as a lighthouse in ancient Greece.
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".
cheese.... yes! they used cheese.......
Yes, "decode" is a verb. It means to convert a coded message into its original form or meaning.
No, "decode" is not an abstract noun. It is a verb that means to convert a coded message into understandable language.
Finally, he understood the map, because he could decode the map's legend.
the code is in braille. go online, google braille and it will show you the alphabet. then decode.
binary
bdhfjbvdfkjvdjnbv
level 2
cheese.... yes! they used cheese.......
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.