"Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words"
Britain's Bletchley Park was a centre for Allied code-breaking during World War 2, and some commentators have claimed their work helped shorten the war by years. Recently the thousands of surviving people who worked at Bletchley were awarded medals, the delay partly due to the secrecy which surrounded the project for many years. I wanted to highlight this article from Silicon.com for two reasons. Firstly because it contains many quotations from staff and is revealing. For instance, the Colossus code-breaking machine got so hot everyone worked in its room in short sleeves. I also wanted to mention it because it's nice to see a technology site pay tribute to the pioneers of modern computing.


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