COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Designed by British engineer Tommy Flowers, the Colossus is designed to break the complex Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis during World War II. A total of ten Colossi were delivered, each using as many as 2, 500 vacuum tubes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Major computer events in 1944 The Mark 1 Colossus computer became operational on February 5, 1944. The computer is the first binary and partially programmable computer that was created at Bletchley Park.

Detailed explanation-3: -The History of Computing. . History of Computing. Definition of a Computer-before 1935, a computer was a person who performed arithmetic calculations. Between 1935 and 1945 the definition referred to a machine, rather than a person.