Tuesday, June 01, 2004

This story (via Fark) will fascinate anyone who enjoyed Cryptonomicon.

    Colossus Mk2, a wartime code-breaker hailed as one of the first electronic computers, has been rebuilt and reunited with Bletchley Park veterans.

    At Bletchley, the hub of British code operations, it crucially found the keys to break the Lorenz code used by Hitler to encrypt messages to his generals.

    Colossus Mk2 has been painstakingly put back together over a decade by computer conservationists for Bletchley museums.


No mention of anyone named Waterhouse being involved with the project, alas.

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