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Call Number
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D810.C88 C66 2006 - Regular Loan - Main Library Collection (Books)
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Title
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 Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park’s codebreaking computers / B. Jack Copeland and others ; edited by B. Jack Copeland.
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Publisher
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Description
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xvi, 462 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-451) and index.
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Contents
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A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh -- How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith -- The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland -- Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky -- Machine against machine / Jack Copeland -- D-Day at Bletchley Park / Thomas H. Flowers -- Intercept! / Jack Copeland -- Colossus / Thomas H. Flowers -- Colossus and the rise of the modern computer / Jack Copeland -- The PC user’s guide to Colossus / Benjamin Wells -- Of men and machines / Brian Randell -- The Colossus rebuild / Tony Sale -- Mr. Newman’s section / Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey ... [et al.] -- Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman -- Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton -- From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Jack Good -- Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie -- Major Tester’s section / Jerry Roberts -- Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins -- An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie -- The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley -- Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... [et al.] -- The British Tunny machine / Gil Hayward -- How Colossus was built and operated : one of its engineers reveals its secrets / Harry Fensom -- Bletchley Park’s Sturgeon : the Fish that laid no eggs / Frode Weierud -- German teleprinter traffic and Swedish wartime intelligence / Craig McKay.
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Subject Headings
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Lorenz cipher system.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence -- Great Britain.
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Cryptography -- Germany -- History.
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Cryptography -- Great Britain -- History.
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Added Headings
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Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-
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ISBN
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019284055X
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9780192840554
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Sys. no.
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000067181
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Call Number
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D810.C88 C66 2006 - Regular Loan - Main Library Collection (Books)
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