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WWII German code-breaking machine reconstructed in UK
short by Kanishka Pandey / on Saturday, 6 April, 2019
The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) in the UK has reconstructed 'Heath Robinson' machine that broke secret German codes generated by the 'Lorenz' cypher during World War II. Engineers said it was an 'achievement' as it was reconstructed from only a few photographs and a hand-drawn diagram. Notably, world's first electric programmable computer, the Colossus, was based on the machine.
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