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Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers / B. Jack Copeland and others ; edited by B. Jack Copeland.

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LIBRA D810.C88 C66 2006
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lorenz cipher system.
World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945.
Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945--Electronic intelligence--Great Britain.
Cryptography--Germany--History.
Cryptography--Great Britain--History.
History.
Great Britain.
Germany.
Physical Description:
xvi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-451) and index.
ISBN:
019284055X
OCLC:
62179172
Publisher Number:
9780192840554 (alk. paper)

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