Collossus was designed and built between 1943 and 1944.
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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.
when did Tommy Flowers invented "Colossus", the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer.
Tommy Flowers and Max Newman invented the Colossus computer. Its purpose was to help crack the German High Command's teletype codes that the British called "Fish".
He did not entirely invent the Colossus computer. Bletchley Park had already produced a counting machine dubbed "Heath Robinson" (British equivalent of the American "Rube Goldberg Machine"), but it was highly unreliable due to the need to synchronize two paper tapes at high speeds. The key improvement to the existing "Heath Robinson" design that Tommy Flowers made was to replace the "encryption key" tape with high speed electronics that could be programmed to generate the key in real time as the "encrypted message" tape was being read. That completely eliminated the problems with synchronizing of paper tapes. But the logical principals used to break the cipher were identical in both the "Heath Robinson" and the Colossus.Once initial problems with the prototype Colossus Mark I had been resolved and it was reliably working on messages at 5000 characters per second Tommy Flowers added a five level deep pipeline, providing parallel processing in the finished Colossus Mark II permitting it to work on messages at 25000 characters per second.
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Tommy flowers and Max Newman
Colossus was a code breaking computer designed by Tommy Flowers.
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Tommy Flowers with input from Allen Coombs, Sid Broadhurst and Bill Chandler.
The computer known as Colossus was designed by Tommy Flowers, and built by a branch of the British Government- the Post Office Research Station. This was used during WW 2 as a code breaking computer.
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.
when did Tommy Flowers invented "Colossus", the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer.
when did Tommy Flowers invented "Colossus", the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer.
Tommy Flowers and Max Newman invented the Colossus computer. Its purpose was to help crack the German High Command's teletype codes that the British called "Fish".
when did Tommy Flowers invented "Colossus", the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer.
It depends on what you mean by computer, but the first electronic, partly programmable computer was the colossus computer built by Tommy Flowers in 1943.