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From: sxr@cs.purdue.EDU (Saul Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Re: Mercury delay lines
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Date: 14 Jun 90 16:22:33 GMT
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>If anyone has some more definitive information on Colossus, I would love
>to hear from them!
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There are several interesting articles about the Colossus in volume 5 No. 3 (July 1983)
of the Annals of the History of Computing.  Colossus was undoubtedly running earlier
than any of the general purpose programmed electronic computers.  However most 
people agree that Colossus was a special purpose electronic system, and not a general
purpose programmed computer.