Its name translates as “electronic balancer ... It’s not the only vacuum tube computer on display in a museum; the Colossus replica in Bletchley Park is also very much worth seeing.

Comprising 2,500 valves and rebuilt from a series of black and white photos and some circuit diagrams.The original wartime Colossus was designed and built by the Post Office engineer, Tommy ...

The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus ... but he was one of Europe’s great computer pioneers. Starting with vacuum tube based machines in 1952, Nixdorf gradually ...