The machines that sparked the computer age. From Enigma to Colossus.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/technology/of-codebreakers-and-mechanical-giants-56949.html [theepochtimes.com] The world war was fought not just with bullets and artillery, but also with computers, creating and cracking even more complex codes that were beyond the human mind`s capability to break. The German Enigma machine was the machine that created the most complex code of the war, and had 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible code combinations, but allied researchers undoubtedly … Read more