Colossus
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Key facts
- Developer
- Tommy Flowers , assisted by Sidney Broadhurst, William Chandler and for the Mark 2 machines, Allen Coombs
- Manufacturer
- Post Office Research Station
- Type
- Special-purpose electronic digital programmable computer
- Generation
- First-generation computer
- Released
- Mk 1: December 1943 ( 1943-12 ) Mk 2: 1 June 1944 ( 1944-06-01 )
- Media
- Electric typewriter output Programmed using switches and plug panels
- Cpu
- Custom circuits using thermionic valves and thyratrons . A total of 1,600 in Mk 1 and 2,400 in Mk 2. Also relays and stepping switches
- Memory
- None (no RAM )
- Display
- Indicator lamp panel
- Input
- Paper tape of up to 20,000 × 5-bit characters in a continuous loop
- Power
- 8.5 kW
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mainframe computer
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Developer
- Tommy Flowers
- Image
- Colossus.jpg
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- discontinuation date
- 2000-00-00
- Commons category
- Colossus computer
- inception
- 1943-00-00
- described at URL
- www.virtualcolossus.co.uk/colossus3d
- publication date
- 1943-12-00
- title
- Colossus
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Colossus (Plural: Colossi) war ein früher Röhrencomputer, der in England während des Zweiten Weltkriegs speziell zur Dechiffrierung von geheimen Nachrichten des deutschen Militärs gebaut wurde. Mit seiner Hilfe wurde ab 1943 in Bletchley Park die Entzifferung der deutschen Lorenz-Schlüsselmaschine (SZ 42) möglich.
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