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    The document summarizes the Colossus, the first electronic digital computer created in 1944 at Bletchley Park. The Colossus was designed to break secret war codes and used 1,500 valves for processing. It had to be rewired for each new code, which could take weeks. The Colossus was fed secret messages via punch cards, where holes represented binary digits. While primitive, it could process, input and output data like modern computers.

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    The document summarizes the Colossus, the first electronic digital computer created in 1944 at Bletchley Park. The Colossus was designed to break secret war codes and used 1,500 valves for processing. It had to be rewired for each new code, which could take weeks. The Colossus was fed secret messages via punch cards, where holes represented binary digits. While primitive, it could process, input and output data like modern computers.

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    The document summarizes the Colossus, the first electronic digital computer created in 1944 at Bletchley Park. The Colossus was designed to break secret war codes and used 1,500 valves for processing. It had to be rewired for each new code, which could take weeks. The Colossus was fed secret messages via punch cards, where holes represented binary digits. While primitive, it could process, input and output data like modern computers.

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    The Colossus and Code Breaking Task

    Work your way through the Colossus movie and find the answers to the
    questions below.
    1. In which year was the very first electronic digital computer created?
    1944
    2. What was the name given to this computer?
    Colossus
    3. Go on the internet and find a picture of this computer. Copy and paste it
    into your worksheet.

    4. What was the name of the place where this computer was created?
    Bletchley Park
    1

    5. Go on the internet and find a picture of this place. Copy and paste it into
    your worksheet.

    6. What was the main role of this computer?


    It was supposed to break down secret war codes
    7. Colossus used valves. What was the role of these valves?
    It was used for processing
    8. How many valves were used on each of the 10 Colossus machines?
    1,500
    9. What were the two main problems caused by using the valves?
    i. They were large
    ii. You needed thousands of them

    10. Many years later transistors were invented. How did transistors help in
    the development of new computers?
    They were so much smaller

    11. Roughly how many transistors might you find on a modern laptop?
    2 billion
    12. What is the role of software?
    It is to tell the computer what to do
    13. There was no such thing as software when Colossus was developed.
    How did they get it to work?
    It was supposed to be re-wired each time

    14. How long might it have taken to re-wire Colossus?


    It will take weeks

    15. After rewiring Colossus it had to be given the secret message to decode.
    What was used to provide it with the message?
    Punch card were provided
    16. The item which held the secret messages contained lots of holes. What
    was the purpose of those holes?
    A hole represents binary 1
    17. Even though Colossus looks primitive to us now, it effectively does the
    same thing as a modern computer today. Write down the three things that
    all computers can do:
    I it process
    ii
    It inputs data
    iii
    it outputs
    3

    Most computers nowadays can also store data Colossus couldnt do this.

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