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Site News: This site is growing! We have added a "Find-a-Friend" page where you can ask us to see if we have information on the location of a friend you knew at work. We have also added information about the upcoming planned events. Check out the "Minutes of the last Steering Committee Meeting" to see what is being planned. In the "Archives", you will find a write up of last October's picnic and our Very Successful Spring Dinner/Dance. Also, check out the new events that have been scheduled for this year, 2004 and possible 2005 events. |
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| Web Site of the Month
04/03/05- Return of Colossus marks D-Day The story of the Brits working away during WW2 at Bletchley Park, England in order to break the Ultra code of the secret German Enigma encrypting machines is well known, especially since it has been made into a not-very-good Hollywood movie ("Enigma"). What has only recently been revealed is that part of the work led to the development of one of the world's first digital computers, named Colossus. It was so secret that it was dismantled and stored at the end of the war, and how it worked remained classified well into the 1990s. Now a team of computer enthusiasts has re-created the successor Colossus Mk 2 in all its vacuum tube and paper tape reader glory, and the BBC has a nice report on it. (Netsurfer Digest) 02/10/05
Recommended by Dave Henry. |
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