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This is an unashamedly modest booklet, designed to provide basic information for those who know little or nothing about Colossus. It is based on a talk which the author gives to visitors to Colossus at Bletchley Park. As he was repeatedly asked by these visitors if they could have a written version of his talk, he decided to meet their requests by preparing this booklet. It thus fills a genuine need for an authoritative introduction to its subject - and who is better able to provide it than the man who masterminded the rebuild of Colossus? It may be brief, and it's certainly cheap, but that doesn't make it worthless. Even in 2008 you can still find writers in (for example) The Times claiming totally erroneously that Colossus was used to break Enigma codes.
If such writers had read Tony Sale's excellent booklet, they might get the story right. Until then, I suggest that the vitriol be reserved for writers who get things wrong, not for writers who provide useful introductions to complex subjects.
About the Author
Tony Sale is a retired Intelligence Officer who now devotes his time to preserving Britain's WW2 codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, and to developing exhibitions on that site. He tackled, and completed, the daunting task of building a working replica of the world's first computer - Colossus - used by the codebreakers in their attack on high-level German crypto systems.
The replica was switched on by the Duke of Kent in 1996, and has since been admired by thousands of visitors to Bletchley. Tony is very often in attendance to give a first-hand account of the reconstruction and operation of Colossus.
This is an unashamedly modest booklet, designed to provide basic information for those who know little or nothing about Colossus. It is based on a talk which the author gives to visitors to Colossus at Bletchley Park. As he was repeatedly asked by these visitors if they could have a written version of his talk, he decided to meet their requests by preparing this booklet. It thus fills a genuine need for an authoritative introduction to its subject - and who is better able to provide it than the man who masterminded the rebuild of Colossus? It may be brief, and it's certainly cheap, but that doesn't make it worthless. Even in 2008 you can still find writers in (for example) The Times claiming totally erroneously that Colossus was used to break Enigma codes.
If such writers had read Tony Sale's excellent booklet, they might get the story right. Until then, I suggest that the vitriol be reserved for writers who get things wrong, not for writers who provide useful introductions to complex subjects.
About the Author
Tony Sale is a retired Intelligence Officer who now devotes his time to preserving Britain's WW2 codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, and to developing exhibitions on that site. He tackled, and completed, the daunting task of building a working replica of the world's first computer - Colossus - used by the codebreakers in their attack on high-level German crypto systems.
The replica was switched on by the Duke of Kent in 1996, and has since been admired by thousands of visitors to Bletchley. Tony is very often in attendance to give a first-hand account of the reconstruction and operation of Colossus.
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