COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Calculating the Atomic Bomb
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Decrypting Nazi Messages
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Advanced Military Trigonometry
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Simple Math Equations
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer, had a single purpose: to help decipher the Lorenz-encrypted (Tunny) messages between Hitler and his generals during World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -Colossus was an electronic digital computer, built during WWII from over 1700 valves (tubes). It was used to break the codes of the German Lorenz SZ-40 cipher machine that was used by the German High Command. Colossus is sometimes referred to as the world’s first fixed program, digital, electronic, computer.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Enigma machine was a field unit used in World War II by German field agents to encrypt and decrypt messages and communications. Similar to the Feistel function of the 1970s, the Enigma machine was one of the first mechanized methods of encrypting text using an iterative cipher.