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After the electronics revolution, mechanical computing machines seem to be the relics of a bygone age.
On commission of the British secret service, Colossus, one of the first computers that was used to break German codes in World War Two, was designed by Tommy Flowers, and built under the leadership of Alan Turing in 1943.
The EDSAC replica project was launched in 2011, and planned to be completed in three years, however, there is some delay due to difficulties.
The National Museum of Computing in Britain has published a book about the world?s oldest working digital computer.
A group in the Bletchley Park near London, led by Alan Turing deciphered the Nazi Enigma encryption code, using the programmable Colossus machines which were destroyed after the war at the orders of Churchill to protect the technology from Soviet spies.
József Fuzer caricaturist, known from the era of “Ludas Matyi”, was the first buyer of the book entitled “The past of the future” recently published by NJSZT.
MTV1 interviewed István Alföldi on the occasion of the Computer Exhibition opening.
Light-walking ladybird
Soviet computer consisting of 27 cabinets
Working vintage computers