Less powerful than a modern pocket calculator, the first real job for these massive machines was to speed up the calculation of artillery firing tables.
So Colossus being used to break the Axis' "Fish" cipher system not "real" enough then ?
Odd that this should fail to be mentioned, despite the author correctly identifying Eniac as the second electronic digital computer.
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Less powerful than a modern pocket calculator, the first real job for these massive machines was to speed up the calculation of artillery firing tables.
So Colossus being used to break the Axis' "Fish" cipher system not "real" enough then ?
Odd that this should fail to be mentioned, despite the author correctly identifying Eniac as the second electronic digital computer.
Bloody yanks