[Cryptography] RIP Tommy Flowers

ianG iang at iang.org
Mon Nov 2 18:24:26 EST 2015


On 2/11/2015 11:01 am, Ben Laurie wrote:
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> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 at 20:35 Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org
> <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:

>     [*]
>     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

In this case, it looks like the victors went further than writing 
history, they also bombed it into oblivion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z2_(computer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z2_%28computer%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29


> Colossus: 1943
> Eniac: 1946




iang


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