GCHQ celebrates 80th anniversary of world's first digital computer, used to crack Nazi ciphers

GCHQ, the British signals and cyber intelligence agency, is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Colossus computer by releasing a series of rare images and documents about the groundbreaking machine. The release “sheds new light on the genesis and workings of Colossus, which was over two metres tall and considered by many to be the

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