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Post by Admin_Vistamike on May 5, 2014 13:09:11 GMT
Messages scrambled using the Enigma machine were cracked by devices largely designed by maths genius Alan Turing.
In addition, the Allies' preparations for D-Day were greatly helped by a pioneering computer called Colossus which helped to decipher messages passing between Hitler and his generals in hours. Without its help, reading those messages took weeks.
Colossus was kept secret for decades after the war and it is only recently that a full picture of its influence and engineering brilliance has become apparent. Wartime work on Colossus kicked off a close relationship between spies and computers GCHQ was one of the first places in the UK to procure one of the distinctive Cray supercomputers BBC Article>>>>>
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Post by GuiltySpark on May 5, 2014 14:22:29 GMT
That OED... looks like the central console of the T.A.R.D.I.S, I wonder if that's where they got the idea?
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