By Andy McCue
Published: Tuesday 18 March 2008
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Name
Don Tregartha
Location
Milton Keynes, nr Bletchley
Occupation
Techno patriot
Comment
And the Americans reckon they invented the computer...
Am I right in thinking this predated the ENIAC or whatever they call the first computer. Colossus was programmable, could store data, and of course was capable of thousands of complex calculations. Its only that our secret service was so paranoid that someone would find out they ever existed that this achievement was never recognised.
I've been to have a look when they were rebuilding it, I'm going back soon.
Thank God it was built by Bletchley Park and not M...
W.S.Becket
And the Americans reckon they invented the compute...
Don Tregartha
Sir Tommy Flowers, if you don't mind.
It took h...
Dr John Dimmock
"Am I right in thinking this predated the ENIAC or...
James Lewis-Williams
So who did order the destruction of the Colossi?
Philip Virgo
Makes me proud to live in Bletchley.
Dan Clement
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