Tommy Flowers and Bill Tutte.

[zeitghost]

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
A Timewatch Special
BBC2 ... Tuesday 25th October, 2011 ... 9.00-10.00pm

The two heroes who helped decode the "Tunny" transmissions.

As featured in last evening's programme, along with the late lamented recreator of the Collossus, Tony Sale.

[Mich the Tester]

Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
A Timewatch Special
BBC2 ... Tuesday 25th October, 2011 ... 9.00-10.00pm

The two heroes who helped decode the "Tunny" transmissions.

As featured in last evening's programme, along with the late lamented recreator of the Collossus, Tony Sale.

I saw that; enjoyed.

[dang65]

It's time they dropped the 'lost heroes sob sob' line from anything to do with Bletchley Park. Full of admiration for what they achieved, and for keeping quiet about it for decades afterwards, but seriously, it's one of the best known stories of the War now. They're hardly 'lost' heroes. I bet there are a hell of a lot of other people who have never spoken to this day, or have at least never been recognised in any way for whatever they did.

[NotAllThere]

Pretty impressive that Collosus was used to break Soviet codes until the mid 60s. How many computers nowadays last 20 years!

I never got the hang of combinatorics in maths - I'd have been a useless code breaker.

[OwlHoot]

I saw that; enjoyed.

WHS

I wonder if the lecturer who taught Tommy Flowers IT Basics in the 1980s knew what he had achieved.

[Doggy Styles]

Fabulous name, Tommy Flowers, and now I know who he is. I thought this thread was either going to be about football or a London gangster of the fifties.

[Mich the Tester]

Fabulous name, Tommy Flowers, and now I know who he is. I thought this thread was either going to be about football or a London gangster of the fifties.

A colourful life then?

[zeitghost]

Pretty impressive that Collosus was used to break Soviet codes until the mid 60s. How many computers nowadays last 20 years!

I never got the hang of combinatorics in maths - I'd have been a useless code breaker.

I'd have been useless too.

To divine all that information from the transmissions without seeing the machine. Beyond my comprehension.

I wonder who the German was who sent that 4k message twice.

Should have got a medal for that (from us).