Bletchley Park, UK (Summer 2002)

Colossus reconstruction at Bletchley Park

Stuart Gold, friend and colleague of DigiBarn Curator Bruce Damer visited Bletchley Park, historic home of the British efforts to decipher Axis communications during World War II. From the Bletchley Park - Station X site:

During WW2 the German armed forces top secret codes were broken at Bletchley Park, providing the allies with vital information towards their war effort. The world's first programmable computer and other technologies we take for granted today were initiated at Bletchley Park.

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121-2118_IMG.JPG	Alan Turing's laboratory	121-2121_IMG.JPG
Code-breaking hut	121-2125_IMG.JPG	the "Bombe" code cracker built to break Enigma Ciphers
Another view of the Bombe	Enigma photograph	mockup of U-boat
121-2130_IMG.JPG	German Lorenz machine whose cipher was broken by Colossus	121-2132_IMG.JPG
Colossus, world's first programmable computer designed by Dr. Tommy Flowers	Colossus	121-2135_IMG.JPG
Colossus reverse	Another view of Colossus	121-2139_IMG.JPG
121-2136_IMG.JPG	Map room with war-time personnel, signal interception	121-2138_IMG.JPG
Mechanical systems in Bletchly Park Computer Museum	More artifacts	121-2144_IMG.JPG
Other personal computers	Osborne 1 and Kaypro	121-2147_IMG.JPG
Memory disply	121-2149_IMG.JPG	Acorn Atom, modern descendent of Colossus

See Also:

On the DigiBarn site:

Larry Lewin's photos of a visit to Bletchly Park (with Enigma Machines!)

On the Web:

Bletchley Park - Station X

The Computer Museum at Bletchley Park (retrobeep site)