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> after the war when the Allies were writing history alone for a few years. British machinery like Colossus was still kept a closely guarded secret until the m
by timrichard 8y ago
> after the war when the Allies were writing history alone for a few years.
British machinery like Colossus was still kept a closely guarded secret until the mid 1970s.
- walshemj 8y agoAnd still being used until quite late on :-) we sold a lot of countries surplus enigma machines
- gnufx 8y agoAnd thus also the contribution of people like Kilburn, featured rather sadly in a BBC documentary and particularly relevant here, with many in a similar boat.
- jdietrich 8y agoThe machinery was secret, but the lessons learned quietly trickled out. Newman, Flowers and Turing couldn't talk about what they did at Bletchley, but they made substantial contributions to the development of computers in the post-war years.