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the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers

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An edition of Colossus (2006)

Colossus

the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers

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Colossus: the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers
2006, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh
How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith
The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland
Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky
Machine against machine / Jack Copeland
D-Day at Bletchley Park / Thomas H. Flowers
Intercept! / Jack Copeland
Colossus / Thomas H. Flowers
Colossus and the rise of the modern computer / Jack Copeland
The PC-user's guide to Colossus / Benjamin Wells
Of men and machines / Brian Randell
The Colossus rebuild / Tony Sale
Mr. Newman's section / Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey ... [et al.]
Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman
Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton
From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Jack Good
Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie
Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts
Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins
An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie
The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley
Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... [et al.]
The British Tunny machine / Gil Hayward
How Colossus was built and operated : one of its engineers reveals its secrets / Harry Fensom
Bletchley Park's Sturgeon : the Fish that laid no eggs / Frode Weierud
German teleprinter traffic and Swedish wartime intelligence / Craig McKay.

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Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/8641
Library of Congress
D810.C88 C66 2006, D810.C88

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3414828M
Internet Archive
colossussecretso0000unse
ISBN 10
019284055X
ISBN 13
9780192840554
LCCN
2005030993
OCLC/WorldCat
62179172
Wikidata
Q27076381
Library Thing
4456636
Goodreads
98610

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