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Craig Sawyers · 1st Dec 2018, 4:00 pm

The first electronic computer, albeit a specialised one, was Colossus. That was specifically designed to break the Lornenz ciphers before the end of the war.

Development of general purpose computers then proceeded on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK in Manchester (where Turing went, before his sad demise) and Cambridge - which collaborated with Lyons (as in tea room), who then had the first ever commercial computer (LEO - the Lyons Electronic Office). That came on stream in 1951 and was the first computer on the planet to run business application.

1st Dec 2018, 4:00 pm	#21
Craig Sawyers Dekatron Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Oxford, UK. Posts: 4,984	Re: ENIGMA machine being auctioned. The first electronic computer, albeit a specialised one, was Colossus. That was specifically designed to break the Lornenz ciphers before the end of the war. Development of general purpose computers then proceeded on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK in Manchester (where Turing went, before his sad demise) and Cambridge - which collaborated with Lyons (as in tea room), who then had the first ever commercial computer (LEO - the Lyons Electronic Office). That came on stream in 1951 and was the first computer on the planet to run business application.