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The Torygraph: The bombe worked not as a proto-computer – that was the role played by the later machine Colossus, also developed at Bletchley –.
Thus Colossus was the world's first electronic computer, and should be celebrated as such. Like Turing's Bombes, and indeed like Turing, it was air brushed from History with the rest of Churchill's Golden Geese. Two years saved from WWII? A modest claim, Bletchley probably saved the UK from defeat, particularly in the Atlantic, which could have resulted in a Nazi or Soviet run Europe. About time Turing was acknowledged as the one, above all others, responsible for that success and rehabilitated from the sad and lonely fate he suffered from his own hands in 50s Manchester.