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Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers / B. Jack Copeland and others ; edited by B. Jack Copeland.
LIBRA D810.C88 C66 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- 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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