• Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.
  • Colossus is so fast and parallel that a 2007 PC programmed to do the same code-breaking task takes as long as Colossus to achieve a result.
  • Colossus was a first-generation computer that was discontinued in 1960.Colossus was a fictional computer in the movie ‘Colossus: The Forbin Project’ in 1970.
  • The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known.
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  • Colossus, the first large-scale electronic computer, was used against the German system of teleprinter encryption known at Bletchley Park as ‘Tunny’.
  • Computing has come a long way in the 75 years since Colossus – the world’s first electronic digital computer – became operational on 1 December 1943.
  • Discover Colossus Mark 1, The First Partially Programmable Electronic Computer. Learn About The Inventor, Purpose, Size, and More.
  • By the end of the war, 63 million characters of high-grade German communications had been decrypted by 550 people helped by the ten Colossus computers.
  • Colossus was the first practical application of a large-scale program controlled computer and as such the forerunner of the post-war digital computer.