رایانه کلوسوس
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Key facts
- Developer
- Tommy Flowers , assisted by Sidney Broadhurst, William Chandler and for the Mark 2 machines, Allen Coombs
- Manufacturer
- Post Office Research Station
- Type
- Special-purpose electronic digital programmable computer
- Generation
- First-generation computer
- Released
- Mk 1: December 1943 ( 1943-12 ) Mk 2: 1 June 1944 ( 1944-06-01 )
- Media
- Electric typewriter output Programmed using switches and plug panels
- Cpu
- Custom circuits using thermionic valves and thyratrons . A total of 1,600 in Mk 1 and 2,400 in Mk 2. Also relays and stepping switches
- Memory
- None (no RAM )
- Display
- Indicator lamp panel
- Input
- Paper tape of up to 20,000 × 5-bit characters in a continuous loop
- Power
- 8.5 kW
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mainframe computer
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Developer
- Tommy Flowers
- Image
- Colossus.jpg
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- discontinuation date
- 2000-00-00
- Commons category
- Colossus computer
- inception
- 1943-00-00
- described at URL
- www.virtualcolossus.co.uk/colossus3d
- publication date
- 1943-12-00
- title
- Colossus
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