Tony Sale obituary
Computer scientist behind the rebuilding of the wartime code-breaking Colossus
Tony Sale, who has died aged 80, was responsible for rebuilding the second world war Colossus code-breaking computer and for launching a successful campaign to preserve the Bletchley Park cryptography centre for the nation. The operation at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, shortened the second world war by many months, but for almost three decades its existence was one of Britain's best kept secrets. When the war was over, the 10 Colossi - considered by many to be the world's first electronic computers - were broken up and the people who had built and worked with them were sworn to secrecy for ever. ...
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