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Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 [1] to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations.
Military weapons technology experienced rapid advances during World War II, and over six years there was a disorientating rate of change in combat in everything from aircraft to small arms. Indeed, the war began with most armies utilizing technology that had changed little from that of World War I , and in some cases, had remained unchanged ...
Top Secret Rosies: The Female "Computers" of WWII is a 2010 [1] documentary film directed by LeAnn Erickson.The film is focused on recognizing the contributions of American women serving as human computers during WWII, six of whom went on to program one of the earliest computers, the ENIAC. [2]
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The Z3 was a German electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. [3]
The left end consisted of electromechanical computing components. The right end included data and program readers, and automatic typewriters. The Harvard Mark I, or IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), was one of the earliest general-purpose electromechanical computers used in the war effort during the last part of World War II.
[35] This would happen again during World War II, as more men joined the fight, college educated women were left to fill their positions. One of the first female computers, Elizabeth Webb Wilson, was hired by the Army in 1918 and was a graduate of George Washington University. Wilson "patiently sought a war job that would make use of her ...
Later in World War II (1943), it was replaced by the TDC Mk IV, which was an improved and larger version. The Torpedo Data Computer (TDC) was an early electromechanical analog computer used for torpedo fire-control on American submarines during World War II.