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Colossus has been Rebuilt

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-not-the-one-in-sardia dept.

Max Driver writes "In celebration of D-Day, "Colossus", one of the earliest electronic code-breaking machines, has been rebuilt after ten years of effort by computer conservationists. Colossus was used to break the Lorenz cipher. This story is being reported by the BBC. Remarkably, the use of parallel processing (five tape channels) and short gate delay time (1.2 microseconds) allows the Colossus to match the speed of a modern PC."

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  1. Re:Wait! Wait! there's a pattern here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yet another example of European inferiority complex.

    That's ok. Next time you get your asses kicked, you'll come running to America.

    Yet again.