Betty Webb had originally signed up with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), with her reasoning per a 2012 interview being that she and a couple of like-minded students felt that they ought to be ...

A reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of ...

A reconstructed World War II-era British computer is trying to crack messages enciphered on Nazi hardware in an event sponsored by the National Museum of Computing, located at Bletchley Park, the ...

The rebuilt Colossus computer at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park (all images courtesy Matt Parker) “For preservation sake, often the objects of our past become confined to clear ...

The fate of the world may not hang in the balance this time, but a team of engineers have resurrected Bletchley Park's famous Colossus computer, the World War II code breaking machine widely ...

Britain's hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world's first digital ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The world's first large-scale, electronic programmable computer was created to do one job - crack Hitler ...

On Thursday, UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) announced the release of previously unseen images and documents related to Colossus, one of the first digital computers. The release ...

I spent a day last week at Bletchley Park, about an hour north of London. As I think is now well known, during the Second World War this was where a team of smart people, notably Alan Turing, broke ...

In the past few months, researchers from the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) have uncovered detailed intelligence of Germany’s Lorenz messages decrypted with the help of the Colossus machine ...

Many visitors to Bletchley Park, home of the UK's code-breaking efforts during World War II, must have enjoyed meeting Tony Sale, who appeared to spend much of his free time tending Colossus. This was ...

The survival of Bletchley Park, the secret home to Britain's codebreakers during World War II, is under serious threat from the "ravages of age and a lack of investment" unless the government steps in ...