[Cryptography] RIP Tommy Flowers

[Ben Laurie]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 at 20:35 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> We lost Tommy Flowers MBE, designer of Colossus (and possibly the world's
> first digital computer[*]) in 1998.  He served at Bletchley Park in WW-2,
> beavering away on the Nazi Enigma code, which pretty much shaved a couple
> of years off the war.
>
> [*]
> Some like to boast that ENIAC was first, but only because Colossus was
> kept a massive secret.
>

The victors write history, don't they?

Z1: 1938
Z2: 1939
Z3: 1941
Colossus: 1943
Eniac: 1946
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