From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 07:31:43 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Tommy Flowers! Message-ID: Tommy Flowers MBE was born on this day in 1905; amongst other things he designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, which was used to break the German Lorenz cipher (not Enigma, as some think). Relevance to Unix? Well, without the world's first usable computer we would not have the world's first usable OS, and M$ would probably reign supreme by now... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."