Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
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.
Quite agree with the sentiment, but just to point out that Colossus (the mark I's and II's) were essentially NOT developed by Turing (although some of his theoretical work went into it, and of course it built on previous machines like the Bombes and "Heath Robinson") but came from The Post Office, and in particular Dr Tommy Flowers.
There are many references out there, this one is my favourite :-
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/