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Sunday, 14 April 2019

Reconstructed Heath Robinson, precursor to the Colossus computer, unveiled

The reconstructed Heath Robinson machine

A reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, UK. The working replica of the Heath Robinson code-breaking machine that was used to read secret top-level Nazi messages during the Second World War was unveiled by wartime Wren Irene Dixon.

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