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OBIT: Tony Sale almost one-man-band Colossus computer rebuilder

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Sep 1, 2011, 9:28:53 AM9/1/11

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/31/tony-sale-obituary?INTCMP=
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Tony Sale obituary

Computer scientist behind the rebuilding of the wartime code-breaking
Colossus

Tony Sale, who has died aged 80, was responsible for rebuilding the second
world war Colossus code-breaking computer and for launching a successful
campaign to preserve the Bletchley Park cryptography centre for the nation.
The operation at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, shortened the second world war
by many months, but for almost three decades its existence was one of
Britain's best kept secrets. When the war was over, the 10 Colossi -
considered by many to be the world's first electronic computers - were
broken up and the people who had built and worked with them were sworn to
secrecy for ever. ...