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Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years

Bletchley Park's code-cracker gets a new lease of life...

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By Gemma Simpson

Published: 16 November 2007 14:25 GMT

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The rebuilt Colossus will be put to work on intercepted radio messages transmitted by radio amateurs in Paderborn, Germany, which have been scrambled by a machine used by the German high command in wartime.

Pictured is the reconstructed machine, which took 6,000 volunteered man days to rebuild.

Photo credit: Bletchley Park Trust

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