How to use in-sentence of “colossus”:
– Jack Copeland, ed., Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Codebreaking Computers, Oxford University Press, 2006 After the first Colossus there were nine Mark 2 machines.
– What the Colossus computers were used for was very secret.
– They stayed so after the War, when Winston Churchill ordered the destruction of most of the Colossus machines into “parts no bigger than a man’s hand”; Tommy Flowers himself burned the designs in a fireplace at Dollis Hill.
– The output from Colossus was then worked on by people who had a very good knowledge of the German language.
– A courier handed Eisenhower a note summarizing a Colossus decrypt.
– Before being destroyed in an earthquake, the Colossus of Rhodes was 70 cubits tall, over 30 metres, making it the tallest statue of the ancient world.
Example sentences of “colossus”:
– People who knew about Colossus were important in the early computer field in Britain.
– The Colossus Mark 1 was taken apart and the parts were sent back to the Post Office.
– Unfortunately, in 222 BC, about 60 years after its unveiling, the Colossus collapsed as its knees were wrecked by an earthquake.
– Since 1994 his team has been building a new Colossus computer at Bletchley Park.
– The rebuilt Colossus is on show at The National Museum of Computing, in H Block Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
– This is why Colossus could not be included in the history of computing hardware for a long time.
– Kratos became the new God of War and attacked the Colossus of Rhode.
– Progress in bronze casting made it possible for the Greeks to create large works, such as the Colossus of Rhodes, with a height of 32 meters.
– Then they took Colossus apart and moved it to Bletchley Park.
– When Colossus found likely settings for two wheels, the codebreaker designed further programs for Colossus until likely settings of other wheels were found.
– In the antiquity on the port of Rhodes there was the gigantic statue of the Sun God which was named Colossus of Rhodes.
– The Colossus itself was highly secret even for many years after the War.
– A colossus is an enormous statue.
– During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus computerColossus, the world’s first programmable electronic German messages.
– At first Colossus was only used to find the starting wheel places used for a message.
- People who knew about Colossus were important in the early computer field in Britain.
- The Colossus Mark 1 was taken apart and the parts were sent back to the Post Office.
- Unfortunately, in 222 BC, about 60 years after its unveiling, the Colossus collapsed as its knees were wrecked by an earthquake.